Intuit
Principal Software Engineer, Trust & Safety
$261K–$353K
New York, New York · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years designing and building large-scale, distributed backend systems in production.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and development of scalable Trust & Safety systems that use data and AI to detect, prevent, and respond to risks while minimizing friction for trustworthy customers.
What you'll do
- Design and implement secure, scalable services and risk decisioning systems across access, identity, product misuse, and compliance.
- Integrate ML models and AI tools into production workflows, and define ways to evaluate and improve their effectiveness.
- Influence cross-team architecture and roadmaps; promote reliability, privacy, operational excellence, and engineer development.
What they ask for
- 10+ years designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems in production.
- Extensive hands-on Java experience, including JVM, Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, and asynchronous or event-driven architectures.
- Experience in a risk-related domain and building cloud-native services on AWS, GCP, or equivalent.
- Experience integrating ML models into production systems.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with modern AI/LLM tooling and patterns for safety or risk workflows.
Pay
USD 261,000 - 353,000 base salary
Tools
Java, JVM, Spring/Spring Boot, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Kinesis
AI focus
Integrates ML models and applies AI, including LLM-based tools, to risk scoring, classification, anomaly detection, triage, and workflow automation.
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