Software Engineer, CDN

Vercel Inc.
New York, NY, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$196,000.0 - $294,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Software Debugging Web Servers Lua (Scripting Language) Network Protocols Cloud Services Next.js Google Cloud ReactJS Kubernetes Software Coding Terraform
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Golang

Job description

Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you’re building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things. About the Role:

Vercel is looking for engineers to help us build functional systems that improve product and customer experience. As a member of the Edge team, you will help to scale and improve our infrastructure, availability and reliability by working with our Back End engineers and product team to identify problems, create tooling and automation.

Your role will be dynamic - you should be comfortable designing systems, writing code, and debugging systems in production. Our team orchestrates deploying, routing and serving for our customers through capabilities and tooling we maintain that leverage our own and other cloud providers’ infrastructure for networking, TLS termination, routing, storage, caching and other novel edge services.

Requirements

  • Intrigued about tackling the complex challenges serving petabytes of data and billions of requests to millions of people
  • A collaborative team player who believes in the power of strong teams to drive significant changes and innovations
  • Have at least 5 years of relevant experience
  • Have deep experience with how to make high performance systems scale in the cloud
  • Want to help protect the Vercel platform and our customers from abuse
  • Are keen to experiment, challenge norms and deliver secure and reliable systems that delight Vercel’s users
  • Are knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, network protocols
  • Comfortable in Golang
  • Familiar with Cloud Services (eg AWS, Google Cloud, or others)
  • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Lua, React and Next.js are nice-to-have!

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity.
  • 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 $196,000-$294,000. This salary range is an estimate. Actual salary will be based on job related skills, experience and location. Pay ranges outside San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.

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