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# Software Engineer, CDN

- **Company:** Vercel Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $196,000.0 - $294,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software Debugging, Web Servers, Lua (Scripting Language), Network Protocols, Cloud Services, Next.js, Google Cloud, ReactJS, Kubernetes, Software Coding, Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-54A51F94640C1567F2/

## About the Role

* 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!

## 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.


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