Senior Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety

About Quizlet:
At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. Our $1B+ learning platform serves tens of millions of students every month,  including two-thirds of U.S. high schoolers and half of U.S. college students, powering over 2 billion learning interactions monthly.
We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.
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About Engineering:
Quizlet's Product Engineering organization builds the core experiences that help millions of students and teachers achieve their learning goals.  We collaborate across teams to achieve user-centric outcomes, focusing on developing intuitive interfaces, engaging learning tools, and robust, scalable systems.
You’ll be joining a passionate group of engineers, designers, product managers, and data scientists dedicated to solving real-world educational challenges. Our teams operate with autonomy, embrace experimentation, and are deeply committed to user-centric design. We value transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration at all levels.
About the Role:We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Quizlet’s Trust & Safety engineering efforts, building the systems that protect learners, educators, and creators while enabling healthy, high-quality participation across our community.
In this role, you will lead teams responsible for moderation, abuse prevention, community integrity, and AI safety infrastructure, working closely with Trust & Safety, Legal, Policy, and Product partners to ensure Quizlet remains a safe, trusted place for learning at global scale.
We’re happy to share that this is an onsite position in our San Francisco office. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency, team partnership, and supports growth as an employee and organization.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for trust & safety systems, including content moderation, abuse and fraud detection, and enforcement workflows
• Design and scale proactive safety mechanisms, including automated detection, risk scoring, and policy-driven enforcement
• Build tools and platforms that support human-in-the-loop moderation, appeals, and case management
• Establish engineering best practices for reliability, auditability, and explainability in safety systems
• Design and evolve community integrity and contribution quality systems that promote safe, constructive participation
• Build reputation, signaling, and feedback mechanisms that help surface high-quality content and interactions while reducing harmful behavior
• Partner with Product to shape community experiences that encourage positive engagement and discourage abuse at scale
• Strengthen safety capabilities for AI-generated and AI-assisted content, including detection, labeling, and transparency mechanisms
• Build safeguards to prevent misuse of AI features, including prompt abuse, policy evasion, and automated spam or manipulation
• Support content authenticity, provenance, and policy enforcement for AI-powered learning experiences
• Partner closely with Trust & Safety Operations, Legal, Policy, Privacy, and Security teams to translate policies into scalable technical systems
• Ensure safety systems support privacy, consent, and regulatory compliance across regions
• Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement of Quizlet’s safety posture

What you bring to the table:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years managing and scaling engineering teams
• Proven experience leading Trust & Safety, Integrity, or Platform Safety engineering teams in a production environment
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching senior engineers, technical leads, and emerging managers
• Experience owning execution for complex, cross-functional initiatives in partnership with Product and Operations teams
• Hands-on experience building or operating content moderation, abuse prevention, fraud detection, or enforcement systems
• Strong understanding of policy-driven enforcement, escalation, and appeals workflows
• Experience designing systems that support hum