Vercel
Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response
$208K–$312K
Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, London +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City, London
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in security, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
About the job
Builds telemetry, detection, logging, and automated response systems for security across Vercel’s multi-cloud fleet.
What you'll do
- Deploy and operate fleet-scale telemetry sensors, managing performance, staged rollouts, canaries, and rollbacks.
- Build and maintain SIEM and logging pipelines, with tested detections managed as code.
- Automate incident response and evidence collection, strengthen corporate security tools, and participate in on-call and SOC escalations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in security, infrastructure, or platform engineering, writing production code in a compiled language and a scripting language.
- Deployed and operated agents, sensors, or telemetry collectors at fleet scale.
- Operated AWS infrastructure and used Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Built and run a data or logging pipeline, including SIEM operations and SQL for investigation.
Nice to have
- Go or Rust; Python or Bash.
- Experience with managed SOC providers or SOAR platforms, open-source security or observability tooling, serverless platforms, or API security.
Pay
$208,000-$312,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Rust, Python, Bash, osquery, eBPF, AWS, Terraform
AI focus
Test where AI and agents can safely take work off responders.
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