Director of Trust & Safety Engineering

Rozgoo; Amer; On-site; EUR 224,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Director of Trust & Safety Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary team protecting the platform, developers, and end users. You will design scalable systems against abuse, fraud, and platform attacks while driving safety programs across the organization.

Role reports to the CTO, Security. In-office anchor days are Monday, Tuesday, and Friday at our San Francisco HQ. Location-specific details will be shared by the recruiting team.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in security or trust and safety.
• Proven track record building and scaling safety programs.
• Experience in fraud detection and abuse prevention.
• Ability to partner with product, legal, and finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams that design, build, and operate trust and safety systems.
• Develop detection pipelines for fraud and abuse, including AI-generated activity.
• Build defenses against billing abuse, compromised accounts, and resource misuse.
• Embed safety capabilities into developer workflows and platform architecture.
• Create automated enforcement and remediation workflows in real time.
• Drive data strategy for trust signals and anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with Legal, Support, and Policy teams on compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Trust & Safety

Security engineering

Fraud detection

Cross-functional

Data strategy

AI risk detection

Platform security

Job description

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:

We are looking for a Director of Trust & Safety Engineering to join our Security organization. You will lead a multidisciplinary group of software engineers and Trust & Safety professionals responsible for protecting Vercel’s platform, developers, and end users. Your teams will design and scale systems that prevent abuse, detect fraud, and uphold platform integrity. This role combines deep engineering leadership with strategic oversight of safety and fraud programs, ensuring our platform remains secure, compliant, and trusted by developers worldwide. You will report to the CTO, Security.

This role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, from our San Francisco HQ. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.

What you will do:

• Lead engineering teams that design, build, and operate systems to detect and prevent platform abuse, fraudulent usage, and malicious activity across the Vercel ecosystem.


• Develop and maintain detection pipelines that identify fraud and abuse, including AI-generated activity such as synthetic accounts, automated misuse, and malicious or spam content deployed via AI tools.


• Build systems that protect against billing and credit abuse, compromised accounts, and resource exploitation within Vercel’s platform and infrastructure.


• Partner with Product, Security, Legal, Finance and Infrastructure teams to embed Trust & Safety program and fraud prevention capabilities directly into developer workflows and core platform architecture.


• Create automated enforcement and remediation workflows that act on suspicious or confirmed fraudulent or abusive behavior in real time, maintaining a strong balance between platform protection and developer experience.


• Drive the architecture and data strategy for trust signals, anomaly detection, and AI-driven abuse scoring systems.


• Collaborate with Legal, Support, and Policy teams to ensure