At a Glance
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.
Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
We are looking for a Product Security Engineer to build the systems that triage and validate bug bounty and other externally reported security findings, not to work the queue. This role suits a software engineer moving into security or a security engineer with a strong engineering background. You will build large language model (LLM) and agent-based tooling that validates findings, traces them to their root cause, and opens fixes for well-understood vulnerability classes. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York City, with three days a week in the office.
The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000.00 - $312,000.00. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process.
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Vercel is a cloud-based Frontend Cloud platform founded in 2015, originally known as Zeit until its rebranding in 2020. The company focuses on enhancing the front-end developer experience by providing tools for building, previewing, deploying, scaling, and securing high-performance web applications and websites. Vercel's core offering includes the open-source React framework Next.js, which supports both static and dynamic sites, and a cloud platform for deploying front-end applications. The platform emphasizes ease of use with single-tap deployment, global speed, and accessibility. Vercel also offers AI-powered tools, such as v0, which generates unique user interfaces. The company serves a diverse range of clients, from individual developers to large enterprises like Walmart and Netflix, and has experienced significant growth, reaching a $200 million annual recurring revenue target by 2025. Vercel is backed by notable investors, including Accel and BlackRock, and aims to provide a comprehensive web development solution from idea to production.
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Security Philosophy
Security Team
Key Initiatives
Vercel focuses on "shifting left"by embedding security tools into the SDLC and maintaining a robust vulnerability management process through bug bounties and automated scanning. **Security Champions Program:** **"Shift Left"in Practice:** - "embedding security tooling into developer workflows"– Senior Product Security Engineer job posting - "evaluate, select, and integrate security tools into our Software Development Life Cycle"– Senior Product Security Engineer job posting **Vulnerability Management Process:** - **Intake:** "You will triage and validate incoming vulnerability reports from the security researcher community"– Senior Product Security Engineer job posting - **Bug Bounty:** "own and expand Vercel's bug bounty program"– Senior Product Security Engineer job posting - **Triage/Remediation:** "daily code reviews and static analysis checks"– Security & Compliance Measures page (https://vercel.com/docs/security/compliance) **Secure SDLC Artifacts:** - "Threat Modeling & Design Review: Partner with engineering and product teams to perform threat modeling"– Senior Product Security Engineer job posting - "regular penetration testing through third-party penetration testers"– Security & Compliance Measures page **Recent Initiatives (Last 6 Months):** - "Talha Tariq joins Vercel as CTO (Security)"– Vercel blog announcement ⚠️ - "Agent now detects vulnerable (to React2Shell) packages... automatically generates pull requests"– LinkedIn post by Talha Tariq
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