Security Engineer, Cloud

About the role

The Security Engineer will join the Cloud Security Engineering team to strengthen the security of the platform by building and improving infrastructure controls. This role involves integrating security best practices into architecture and workflows to ensure the company grows securely and confidently.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable security controls across our cloud-native platform.
• Harden infrastructure components using infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, and service isolation.
• Build secure by default infrastructure and code CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to integrate security best practices into 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.

Required skills

• Cloud security
• AWS
• GCP
• Identity and access management
• System hardening
• Terraform
• CDK
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD security

Nice to have

• Security automation
• Open-source security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Cybersecurity or similar disciplines

Certifications

• GCP Security Engineer
• AWS certifications
• CISSP
• OSCP

Benefits

• Equity
• Healthcare Package
• Mentorship
• Flexible Time Off
• Work from home budget

About the Company

Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company that creates products to help builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and developer experience. They are the team behind Next.js, v0, and the AI SDK, supporting millions of developers worldwide.