Director of Trust & Safety Engineering

remote zest jobs; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Mentorship

WFH budget

Flexible time off

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Director of Trust & Safety Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for protecting the platform, developers, and end users. You will design and operate systems to prevent abuse, detect fraud, and maintain a trusted, compliant environment.

You will report to the CTO and collaborate with product, finance, and infrastructure teams to integrate Trust & Safety into developer workflows while mentoring engineers and shaping the safety program globally.

Job description

About Vercel:

Vercel gives developers the tools and reputed company infrastructure to build, reputed company, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As reputed company behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like reputed company, Supreme, reputed company, and reputed company build for the AI-reputed company web.

Our mission is to reputed company the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a reputed company 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 reputed company organization. You will reputed company 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 reputed company systems that prevent abuse, detect fraud, and reputed company platform reputed company. This role combines deep engineering leadership with reputed company reputed company of safety and fraud programs, ensuring our platform remains secure, compliant, and trusted by developers worldwide. You will report to the CTO, reputed company.

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

What you will do:

• reputed company engineering teams that design, build, and operate systems to detect and prevent platform abuse, fraudulent usage, and malicious activity across the Vercel ecosystem.
• reputed company 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 reputed company AI tools.
• Build systems that protect against billing and credit abuse, compromised accounts, and resource exploitation reputed company Vercel's platform and infrastructure.
• Partner with Product, reputed company, reputed company, Finance and Infrastructure teams to reputed company Trust & Safety program and fraud prevention capabilities directly into developer workflows and reputed company platform architecture.
• Create automated enforcement and remediation workflows that reputed company suspicious or confirmed fraudulent or abusive behavior in reputed company time, maintaining a strong reputed company between platform protection and developer experience.
• reputed company the architecture and data reputed company for trust signals, reputed company detection, and AI-driven abuse scoring systems.
• Collaborate with reputed company, Support, and Policy teams to ensure compliance with global regulations while maintaining transparency and fairness in enforcement actions.
• reputed company the Trust & Safety reputed company team responsible for policy enforcement, incident response, and user protection.
• Mentor and grow engineers and Trust & Safety specialists, fostering a culture of technical reputed company, transparency, and accountability.

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• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with a reputed company on reputed company or trust & safety.
• 5+ years leading large, multi-disciplinary technical teams.
• reputed company reputed company building and scaling engineering organizations that reputed company safety, reputed company, or fraud prevention systems at global reputed company.
• Strong technical expertise in backend systems, reputed company infrastructure, or data engineering, ideally reputed company developer or platform ecosystems.
• Deep understanding of platform abuse, AI-generated fraud, automation-reputed company misuse, and emerging risks in large-reputed company developer platforms.
• Experience designing or overseeing reputed company-time detection and enforcement systems that use data analytics, automation, or machine learning.
• Skilled in building alignment between engineering, product, and policy stakeholders to operationalize Trust & Safety initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering and Trust & Safety teams.
• Strong judgment balancing innovation, platform reliability, and user safety in a fast-moving environment.

Bonus if you:

• Have reputed company or led combined Engineering and Trust & Safety organizations in developer, reputed company, or infrastructure environments.
• Have experience using automation, analytics, or ML to detect and prevent AI-generated or coordinated abuse.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive reputed company Package.
• Learn and Grow - we reputed company mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will reputed company you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your reputed company as needed.

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