Software Engineer, Edge

About Vercel

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, eBay, The Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web.

At Vercel, our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products and that goes hand in hand with creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life.

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.

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 3 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 customers from abuse.
• Are keen to experiment, challenge norms, and deliver secure and reliable systems that delight Vercel's users.
• Are knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, network protocols.
• Comfortable in Golang.
• Familiar with Cloud Services (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, or others).
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Lua, React, and Next.js are nice-to-have!

Benefits

• Great compensation package and stock options.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off - Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4-weeks per year, and paid holidays.
• Remote Friendly - Work with teammates from different time zones across the globe.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $170,000.00 - $221,000.00. This salary range is an estimate. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Pay ranges outside San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.