Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer at Vercel focusing on building trust & safety systems. Analyzing threat behaviors and implementing scalable defenses against abuse.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze threat actor behavior and evolving abuse patterns across large, heterogeneous datasets to inform detection logic, policy decisions, and scalable mitigations.
  • Research, prototype, and implement state-of-the-art LLM-driven techniques for abuse detection, classification, and prevention.
  • Design and develop production-ready systems that 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 closely with security, product, and infrastructure teams to bring research ideas into stable, scalable production systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in abuse prevention, trust & safety, or security engineering.
  • Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.
  • Hands-on experience working with LLMs, including prompt engineering, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
  • Collaborate closely with security, product, and infrastructure teams to bring research ideas into stable, scalable production systems.
  • Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, including AWS.
  • Strong understanding of real-world threat actor behavior and abuse tactics.
  • Experience owning systems end-to-end, from initial research through production deployment and iteration.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package.
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
  • Flexible Time Off.
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

Job title

Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$196,000 - $294,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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