2 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 is the platform where humans and AI agents build, ship, and scale software together. Trusted by OpenAI, Meta, Ramp, and Supreme, we free the world to ship what's next.