Cloud Security Engineer: Scale Secure Infrastructure

Remote Jobs; United States; Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare package

Mentorship & events

Flexible time off

WFH budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Cloud Security Engineering team. In this role, you’ll help strengthen the security of our platform by building and improving the controls that protect our infrastructure. You’ll report to the Security Operations Manager.

You’ll work hybrid or fully remote within the United States, with in-office anchor days in SF or NY if you’re within commuting distance. You will collaborate across teams to integrate security into architecture and pipelines and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure or platform security.
• Deep understanding of secure cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and IAM.
• Experience hardening systems and building secure pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable security controls across our cloud-native platform.
• Harden infrastructure components using IaC, policy enforcement, and service isolation.
• Build secure by default infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to embed security in architecture and workflows.
• Stay ahead of cloud security trends and adopt cutting-edge technologies to enhance platform resilience.
• Conduct threat modeling, risk analysis, and mitigation planning for critical systems.
• Drive improvements in monitoring, detection, and incident response at the platform level.
• Build, deploy and maintain relevant tooling.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS/GCP

IAM

System hardening

Terraform

CDK

Kubernetes

CI/CD security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Kubernetes

CI/CD security

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Cloud Security Engineering team. In this role, you’ll help strengthen the security of our platform by building and improving the controls that protect our infrastructure. You’ll report to the Security Operations Manager.

You’ll work hybrid or fully remote within the United States, with in-office anchor days in SF or NY if you’re within commuting distance. You will collaborate across teams to integrate security into architecture and pipelines and