Joblaze summary

In the role of Software Engineer for Trust & Safety at Vercel, the individual will focus on developing and maintaining systems that safeguard the platform against abuse, leveraging data analysis and security engineering. Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python, along with experience in working with large datasets and LLM techniques, is essential for success. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with a strong background in security engineering and a deep understanding of threat actor behavior. The role involves close collaboration with various teams to implement scalable defenses against evolving threats.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 2, 2026. Last confirmed on Vercel's careers page October 31, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
Starts above 73% of 103 comparable senior security roles in United States that list Python we track (median $180,000 across 46 companies). See Python salary trends
Python appears in 41% of 344 comparable senior security roles in United States; LLM appears in 0.3% of 344 comparable senior security roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Software Engineer, Trust & Safety role remote?: It's hybrid — Vercel expects some on-site time in Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City.
What's the salary range?: Vercel lists $196,000–$294,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, Trust & Safety role.
Where is the role based?: Vercel is hiring for this position in Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: JavaScript, LLM, Python, TypeScript.
What seniority level is this role?: Vercel targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Software Engineer, Trust & Safety role at Vercel.

From the original posting

About Vercel:

About the role:

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Trust & Safety, to design, build, and operate the large-scale, real-time distributed systems that stop abuse and fraud on the platform, including fraud committed through AI agents, fraud that abuses deployments and compute resources, and payment fraud on token-based usage. You will write the services, detection systems, and large language model (LLM) tooling that disrupt abuse at internet scale. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York City, with three days a week in the office.

What you’ll do:

Design and build production services that detect and disrupt fraud committed through AI agents, fraud that abuses deployments and compute resources, and payment fraud on token-based usage
Build detection systems that find abuse patterns across large datasets
Ship LLM-driven systems for abuse detection, classification, and prevention, and build the datasets and evaluation pipelines that measure them
Build and maintain internal tools for trust and safety workflows
Analyze threat actor behavior to inform detection logic, and work with security, product, and infrastructure teams to move prototypes into stable production

What you need:

5+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale, real-time distributed systems
Wrote and shipped production code in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python, owning systems end to end from prototype through deployment and iteration
Hands-on LLM experience, including prompt engineering, evaluation, and fine-tuning
Operated production services on AWS

Bonus if you:

Shipped an AI-based trust and safety system to production
Worked in abuse prevention, trust and safety, or security engineering
Built or hosted a project on Vercel

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000 - $312,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.

Disclosures:

Standard company text repeated across Vercel's postings is omitted here.

Software Engineer, Trust & Safety