Software Engineer, Lua (CDN)

Vercel

82d • $196,000 - $280,000

About The Position

As a member of the CDN Infrastructure team, you will help to scale and improve our services, availability and reliability by working with other backend engineers and our product team to identify problems, and build solutions that delight developers building on Vercel. In this role, you’ll wear many hats—designing systems, writing code, and diving into production to solve tough problems. As part of the CDN Infrastructure team, you’ll help build and run Vercel’s built-in CDN, powering framework-aware routing, caching, and high-performance traffic delivery. We work with both our own infrastructure and cloud providers’ platforms to handle networking, TLS termination, routing, storage, and caching, all with the goal of creating innovative edge services that make the web faster and more reliable.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Lua
• Knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, & HTTP
• 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 innovation
• Keen to experiment, challenge norms and deliver secure and reliable systems that delight Vercel's users

Nice To Haves

• Comfortable in Golang

Responsibilities

• Create new primitives to expand the product feature set of Vercel CDN
• Optimize the Vercel CDN experience to improve reliability and lower latency
• Analyze web latency to find sources of tail latency
• Advance the developer experience for 15+ developers working primarily in Lua

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level