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As a Senior Software Engineer on our Trust & Safety team at Vercel, you’ll build and operate systems that protect millions of developers and projects from abuse at internet scale. You’ll analyze real-world threat actor behavior, detect emerging abuse patterns across large datasets, and design production-ready mitigations to keep the platform safe without slowing developers. This role blends security engineering, data analysis, and applied LLM techniques, working closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams to turn evolving threats into scalable defenses.
Job Responsibility:
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 disruptive 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
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
What we offer:
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