Vercel

Tech / AI / Software

SoftwareEngineer,Lua

$196–280k Remote - AMER Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer, Lua at Vercel. Skills: Lua, CDN Infrastructure, web servers, HTTP. scale and improve our services, availability and reliability. identify problems, and build solutions that delight developers building on Vercel”

What You'll Achieve.

build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web; enable the world to ship the best products; create a place where everyone can do their best work; ship things; make the web faster and more reliable

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; solve tough problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of experience with Lua, Knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, & HTTP

Nice to Have

Comfortable in Golang

What You'll Do.

scale and improve our services

availability and reliability

and build solutions that delight developers building on Vercel

diving into production to solve tough problems

build and run Vercel’s built-in CDN

powering framework-aware routing

and high-performance traffic delivery

creating innovative edge services that make the web faster and more reliable

Create new primitives to expand the product feature set of Vercel CDN

Optimize the Vercel CDN experience to improve reliability and lower latency

Analyze web latency to find sources of tail latency

Advance the developer experience for 15+ developers working primarily in Lua

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

working with other backend engineers and our product team; collaborative team player; believes in the power of teams to drive significant changes and innovation

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: As a member of the CDN Infrastructure team, you will help to scale and improve our services, availability and reliability by working with other backend engineers and our product team to identify problems, and build solutions that delight developers building on Vercel. In this role, you’ll wear many hats—designing systems, writing code, and diving into production to solve tough problems. As part of the CDN Infrastructure team, you’ll help build and run Vercel’s built-in CDN, powering framework-aware routing, caching, and high-performance traffic delivery. We work with both our own infrastructure and cloud providers’ platforms to handle networking, TLS termination, routing, storage, and caching, all with the goal of creating innovative edge services that make the web faster and more reliable. What you will do: Create new primitives to expand the product feature set of Vercel CDN Optimize the Vercel CDN experience to improve reliability and lower latency Analyze web latency to find sources of tail latency Advance the developer experience for 15+ developers working primarily in Lua Other examples of what you would work on: https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-made-global-routing-faster-with-bloom-filters https://vercel.com/blog/cdn-request-collapsing About you: 5+ years of experience with Lua Are knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, & HTTP Intrigued about tackling the complex challenges serving petabytes of data and billions of reques

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