Software Engineer, CDN

Vercel is hiring a Software Engineer, CDN to improve its edge infrastructure and customer experience. The role focuses on scaling infrastructure, availability, and reliability through system design, production debugging, and tooling for deploying, routing, and serving customer workloads.

Responsibilities:

• 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 backend 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 by 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 (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, or others)
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Lua, React and Next.js are nice-to-have!