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VercelVercelSan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, CDN Content

Software Engineer building and optimizing Vercel's global CDN content services for ISR, PPR, and image optimization. Focus on performance, multi-tier caching, safe production rollouts, observability, and on-call in a polyglot stack (Go, Lua, TypeScript). Requires 2+ years backend production experience and HTTP/web fundamentals.

172k – 258k
Hybrid2+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Build and improve the services behind ISR, PPR, and image optimization — working in Go, Lua, and TypeScript across the serving path.
  • Execute well-defined projects independently, from implementation through safe rollout (feature flags, shadow modes, progressive deployment) and post-ship validation.
  • Monitor and maintain your work in production: build dashboards, add metrics and alerts, and develop ownership of what you ship.
  • Contribute to the team's observability and testing surface — the dashboards, logs views, and e2e test suites that keep a high-change system trustworthy.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation with support from senior engineers, and contribute to incident follow-ups that make the system more resilient.
  • Collaborate with teammates and partner teams (Next.js, CI/CD) through design discussions, code review, and pairing.

About You

  • 2+ years of experience building and operating backend services in production.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or a comparable systems language, and enthusiasm for working across a polyglot stack.
  • Solid understanding of HTTP and web fundamentals — caching headers, request/response lifecycle, what a proxy does.
  • You write code you're willing to operate: tested, instrumented, and documented.
  • Curious about how large-scale systems work, and motivated to dig into unfamiliar code and production data to figure things out.
  • A collaborative teammate who communicates clearly, asks good questions, and follows through reliably.

Bonus If You

  • Have experience with caching systems (CDNs, Redis/Memcached, application-level caches) at any scale.
  • Have AWS experience, particularly S3 or ElastiCache.
  • Have used Next.js or another modern web framework and understand rendering modes like SSR/SSG/ISR.
  • Have experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Honeycomb, or similar).
  • Have experience with Terraform or Kubernetes.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • 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.
  • 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 $172,000 - $258,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role.

Skills

GoTypeScriptLuaHttpCachingCdnAWSS3ElasticacheNext.jsDatadogHoneycombTerraformKubernetes
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