About this role
About the Role
Join Vercel's CDN Content team to build and operate the platform that serves static assets, optimized images, and other content across billions of requests. You will work on the services behind ISR, PPR, and image optimization, and help shape performance and cost efficiency at planet scale.
What You'll Do
- 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 end-to-end 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.
- Collaborate with teammates and partner teams (Next.js, CI/CD) through design discussions, code review, and pairing.
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years of experience building and operating backend services in production.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Experience with caching systems (CDNs, Redis/Memcached, application-level caches) at any scale.
- AWS experience, particularly S3 or ElastiCache.
- Used Next.js or another modern web framework and understand rendering modes like SSR/SSG/ISR.
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Honeycomb, or similar).
- Experience with Terraform or Kubernetes.
Compensation & Benefits
- The SF base pay range for this role is USD 172,000 - 258,000 per year. Actual salary will be based on skills, experience, and location.
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Learn and Grow — mentorship and events to expand your network and skills.
- Flexible Time Off.
- Gear allowance and a WFH budget to outfit your space as needed.