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Senior Platform Security Engineer
Vercel
full-time
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Location: California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $196,000 - $294,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesNext.jsTerraform
About the role
- Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web.
- Report to the Head of Security Engineering; can be located remotely.
- Lead efforts to harden the platform and ensure infrastructure security is foundational to how we build and scale.
- Design and implement scalable security controls across our cloud-native platform.
- Harden infrastructure components using infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, and service isolation.
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to integrate security best practices into architecture and workflows.
- Conduct threat modeling, risk analysis, and mitigation planning for critical systems.
- Drive improvements in monitoring, detection, and incident response at the platform level.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform security roles.
- Deep understanding of secure cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), identity and access management, and system hardening.
- Proficient with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD security.
- Skilled at balancing engineering realities with principled security practices.
- Proven track record of shipping secure, resilient systems at scale.
- Bonus: Have built or scaled security automation pipelines.
- Bonus: Contributed to open-source security projects or tools.
- Bonus: Hold certifications such as GCP Security Engineer, CISSP, or OSCP.
