Vercel
Software Engineer, CDN Content
$172K–$258K
Hybrid - San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 7, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 2+ years building and operating backend services in production.
About the job
Build and operate services that deliver and cache content through Vercel’s global CDN, improving performance through production-tested changes.
What you'll do
- Build and improve services for ISR, PPR, and image optimization, and safely roll out and validate changes.
- Monitor and maintain production systems with dashboards, metrics, alerts, and tests; participate in on-call and incident follow-ups.
- Collaborate with partner teams through design discussions, code review, and pairing.
What they ask for
- 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 and the request/response lifecycle.
- Write tested, instrumented, and documented code.
Nice to have
- Experience with caching systems, AWS (particularly S3 or ElastiCache), Next.js or another modern web framework, or observability tooling.
- Experience with Terraform or Kubernetes.
Pay
$172,000 - $258,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Lua, TypeScript, TypeScript/Node.js, Next.js, AWS, S3, ElastiCache
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