Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

Vercel
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 196,000 - 294,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Analytical thinking","End-to-end ownership","Researching","Problem-solving"]

Build and operate trust and safety systems at internet scale to protect developers and projects from abuse. Analyze threat actor behavior and evolving abuse patterns across large datasets, and develop LLM-driven detection, classification, and prevention approaches. Design production-ready systems and evaluation pipelines, fine-tune tools and datasets, and partner with security, product, and infrastructure teams to turn research into scalable defenses.

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Vercel
Vercel
11 months ago

Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

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Job Summary

Build and operate trust and safety systems at internet scale to protect developers and projects from abuse. Analyze threat actor behavior and evolving abuse patterns across large datasets, and develop LLM-driven detection, classification, and prevention approaches. Design production-ready systems and evaluation pipelines, fine-tune tools and datasets, and partner with security, product, and infrastructure teams to turn research into scalable defenses.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Analyze threat actor behavior and evolving abuse patterns across large datasets to inform detection logic and mitigations.
  • •Research, prototype, and implement LLM-driven techniques for abuse detection, classification, and prevention.
  • •Design and develop production-ready systems to detect and disrupt abusive behavior across the Vercel platform.
  • •Build, maintain, and fine-tune internal tools, datasets, and evaluation pipelines for trust and safety workflows.
  • •Collaborate with security, product, and infrastructure teams to move research into stable, scalable production systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 196,000 - 294,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in abuse prevention, trust & safety, or security engineering.
  • •Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.
  • •Hands-on experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
  • •Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, including AWS.
  • •Experience owning systems end-to-end from research through production deployment and iteration.
Experience:5+ yearsTrust and safetyAbuse preventionSecurity engineeringCloud infrastructureLLMInternet scale
Skills:CollaborationAnalytical thinkingEnd-to-end ownershipResearchingProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonLLMsPrompt engineeringEvaluationFine-tuningAWSCloud infrastructure

Company Brief

Vercel
Provides a frontend cloud platform and developer tools (including Next.js and v0) that simplify building, deploying, and scaling web and AI-native applications for developers and enterprises.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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