Vercel
Software Engineer, Scheduled Tasks
$196K–$312K
Hybrid - San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years
About the job
Build and operate Vercel’s Workflows, Queues, and Cron platform so developers can coordinate durable, event-driven, and scheduled work.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate platform capabilities, APIs, SDKs, and tooling for scheduled and durable work.
- Develop distributed-systems foundations for scheduling, message delivery, execution, retries, and state.
- Partner with product, developer experience, infrastructure teams, and the developer community to improve the platform.
What they ask for
- Experience with distributed systems, developer platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
- Comfort working across APIs, runtimes, storage, networking, and production operations.
- Experience with one or more of job queues, schedulers, workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, state machines, stream processing, or durable execution.
- Understanding of delivery guarantees, retries, idempotency, concurrency, and fault tolerance; ability to write high-quality, well-tested code.
Nice to have
- Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Experience with open-source infrastructure or developer tools.
Pay
$196,000.00 - $312,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript/JavaScript
AI focus
Build platform capabilities that help applications and agents coordinate background, event-driven, and scheduled work.
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