Software Engineer - Trust & Safety
Job Description
- Hold a high bar for technical work and teamwork.
- Build rapport with each member of the team and support them as they level up their skills.
- Work closely with team leadership, our program manager, and trust & safety sub-teams to synthesize needs into engineering roadmaps.
- Review and write code along with the team.
- Participate in and manage the team's on-call rotation.
- Reduce abuse, fraud, and other harms on Vercel.
- At least 4+ years of experience managing technical teams, or 6+ as team technical lead in rapidly growing companies.
- Applied experience building and maintaining scaled abuse detection and restriction/checkpoint systems in a professional setting.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort with uncertainty.
- Excited by nurturing engineers and building engineering teams.
- Located in the SF Bay Area.
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Mentorship and events to build network and skills.
- Flexible Time Off.
- Provided gear and WFH budget to outfit your space.
About Vercel:
Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.
Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.
About the Role:
As a webhost, millions of project builds flow through Vercel each day, and the flip side of the coin of being the best at what we do is keeping up with Trust & Safety issues. Whether it’s building out detection systems to find bad actors, scaling out our abuse response, or working to keep Vercel’s new products and features safe and scalable—Trust & Safety is on the case. We are looking for a Trust & Safety Engineering Manager to grow the Trust & Safety Engineering team and to protect Vercel, our users, and society from harms, fraud, and other risks.
What You Will Do:
- Hold a high bar for technical work and teamwork.
- Build rapport with each member of the team and support them as they level up their skills.
- Work closely with team leadership, our program manager, and trust & safety sub-teams to synthesize needs into engineering roadmaps.
- Review and write code along with the team.
- Participate in and manage the team's on-call rotation.
- Reduce abuse, fraud, and other harms on Vercel.
About You:
- You have at least 4+ years of experience managing technical teams, or 6+ as team technical lead—in rapidly growing companies.
- You have applied experience building and maintaining scaled abuse detection and restriction/checkpoint systems in a professional setting.
- People tell you that you communicate well and you are comfortable with uncertainty.
- You are excited by nurturing engineers and building engineering teams.
- You are located in the SF Bay Area.
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.
