Vercel

Tech / AI / Software

SoftwareEngineer,CDN

$196–294k san francisco, california, united states; New York, New York, United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Software Engineer, CDN at Vercel. Skills: Golang, Cloud Services, High performance systems, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, Edge services. Help scale and improve our infrastructure, availability and reliability. Work with our backend engineers and product team to identify problems, create tooling and automation”

What You'll Achieve.

Improve product and customer experience; Deliver secure and reliable systems that delight Vercel's users

Industry & Context.

Tech / AI / Software
Problems you'll solve

Tackling the complex challenges serving petabytes of data and billions of requests to millions of people; Identify problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

At least 5 years of relevant experience, Deep experience with how to make high performance systems scale in the cloud, Knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, network protocols, Comfortable in Golang

Nice to Have

Experience with Terraform, Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with Lua, Experience with React, Experience with Next.js

What You'll Do.

Help scale and improve our infrastructure

availability and reliability

Work with our backend engineers and product team to identify problems

create tooling and automation

Debug systems in production

Orchestrate deploying

routing and serving for our customers through capabilities and tooling we maintain that leverage our own and other cloud providers' infrastructure for networking

caching and other novel edge services

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with our backend engineers and product team; Collaborative team player

Full Job Description

About Vercel: Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web. Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things. About the Role: Vercel is looking for engineers to help us build functional systems that improve product and customer experience. As a member of the Edge team, you will help to scale and improve our infrastructure, availability and reliability by working with our backend engineers and product team to identify problems, create tooling and automation. Your role will be dynamic - you should be comfortable designing systems, writing code, and debugging systems in production. Our team orchestrates deploying, routing and serving for our customers through capabilities and tooling we maintain that leverage our own and other cloud providers' infrastructure for networking, TLS termination, routing, storage, caching and other novel edge services. If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF or NY), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team. About You: Intrigued about tackling the complex challenges serving petabytes of data and billions of requests to millions of people A collaborative team player who believes in the power of strong teams to drive significant changes and innovations Have at least 5 years of relevant experience Have deep experience with how to make high performance systems scale in the cloud Want to help protect the Vercel platform and our cus

Free ATS check

Applying for this Software Engineer, CDN role?

Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.

How to Apply on Greenhouse

  • Create a Greenhouse profile before applying — it saves time across multiple applications.
  • Upload your resume as a PDF; the parser handles it better than Word.
  • Answer all knockout questions carefully — wrong answers auto-reject before a human sees you.
  • Enable email notifications to track application status in real time.

ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED

What do employees actually say about Vercel?

Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.

Read Company Rants →