Vercel
Tech / AI / Software
SoftwareEngineer,Lua
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“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.
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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