Hiring: Software Engineer, CDN Content Company: Vercel Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:22:34 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CDN, CI/CD, Datadog, Feature Flags, Honeycomb, Kubernetes, Lua, Memcached, Next.js, Node.js, Redis, S3, Terraform, TypeScript, Vercel About the job Experience: •2+ years of experience building and operating backend services in production. Required Skills: •If you're based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF or NY), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team. •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. •Partner cross-functionally with teammates and partner teams (Next.js, CI/CD) through design discussions, code review, and pairing. Qualifications: •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. •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. Compensation: •$172,000 - $258,000 / year •Competitive compensation package, including equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!