8 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$196k - $294k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve infrastructure supporting Vercel’s build and deployment lifecycle, including webhooks, database schemas, and scalable APIs.
- Design and operate high-performance microservices processing millions of builds daily.
- Lead projects end-to-end, from identifying opportunities and defining technical direction to delivering performance, reliability, and developer-experience improvements.
- Collaborate across teams to align infrastructure with company goals and enable seamless developer workflows.
- Shape the long-term vision and standards for agentic infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and take responsibility for critical-system reliability.
- Contribute to the open-source community and write clean, efficient, tested, and documented code.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience designing, building, and operating backend applications and distributed systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Strong proficiency with AWS cloud infrastructure and Terraform infrastructure as code.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from design and implementation through long-term production operation.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, influence priorities, drive alignment, and reason about architectural tradeoffs.
- Experience mentoring, conducting code reviews, or otherwise improving team engineering practices.
- Bonus: familiarity with React or Next.js, experience with DynamoDB, developer or CI/CD platforms, open-source contributions, monorepo or polyrepo build optimization, build caching, artifact storage, or dependency management at scale.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity.
- Inclusive healthcare package.
- Mentorship and opportunities to attend professional events.
- Flexible time off.
- Company-provided equipment and a work-from-home budget.
- The role’s base pay range is $196,000.00-$294,000.00, with location-based adjustments outside San Francisco and potential additional benefits, equity, bonus, or variable pay.
Tech Stack
About Vercel
Vercel builds a frontend cloud platform for developing, previewing, and deploying web applications, with strong support for React and Next.js. It sells usage-based and enterprise plans to developers and companies, and it stewards the open-source Next.js framework alongside tools like the AI SDK. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company focuses on speeding up modern web development and delivery.