Software Engineer, Trust & Safety
Core
Build and operate systems at internet scale to protect developers and projects from abuse by analyzing threat behavior and implementing LLM-driven mitigations.
Role type
Senior IC software engineer (trust & safety / security)
Builds
Production-ready detection and disruption systems for the Vercel platform
Domain
Internet security, abuse prevention, applied LLMs
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, cloud infrastructure (AWS), threat actor behavior analysis, end-to-end system ownership
Preferred skills
Experience in abuse prevention or security engineering
Technologies
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, AWS, LLMs
Responsibilities
Analyze threat actor behavior and abuse patterns across large datasets; Research and implement LLM-driven techniques for abuse detection; Design and develop production systems to disrupt abusive behavior; Build and maintain internal tools, datasets, and evaluation pipelines; Collaborate with security, product, and infrastructure teams to scale research into production
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC