3 months ago
Base Salary
$172k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and improve services behind incremental static regeneration, partial prerendering, and image optimization across the serving path.
- Execute projects independently from implementation through feature flags, shadow modes, progressive deployment, and post-ship validation.
- Monitor and maintain production systems by building dashboards and adding metrics and alerts.
- Contribute to dashboards, log views, and end-to-end test suites for observability and reliability.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and contribute to incident follow-ups.
- Collaborate with Next.js, CI/CD, and other partner teams through design discussions, code review, and pairing.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience building and operating backend services in production.
- Proficiency in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or a comparable systems language.
- Solid understanding of HTTP and web fundamentals, including caching headers, request/response lifecycles, and proxies.
- Ability to write tested, instrumented, and documented production code.
- Curiosity about large-scale systems and willingness to investigate unfamiliar code and production data.
- Collaborative communication, strong questioning, and reliable follow-through.
- Experience with caching systems such as CDNs, Redis, Memcached, or application-level caches is a bonus.
- AWS experience, particularly S3 or ElastiCache, is a bonus.
- Experience with Next.js or another modern web framework and rendering modes such as SSR, SSG, and ISR is a bonus.
- Experience with Datadog, Honeycomb, or similar observability tooling is a bonus.
- Experience with Terraform or Kubernetes is a bonus.
Benefits
- Inclusive healthcare package
- Mentorship and attendance at professional events
- Flexible time off
- Company-provided work equipment
- Work-from-home budget
- Hybrid in-office anchor days Monday, Tuesday, and Friday for employees within commuting distance of the San Francisco or New York offices; fully remote beyond that distance
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.