About the position
Vercel is seeking Infrastructure Engineers to help improve their product and customer experience by scaling and improving their infrastructure, availability, and reliability. The ideal candidate should have a solid background in software engineering and be familiar with Cloud Services, Node.js, Terraform, or Kubernetes. The role is dynamic and requires designing systems, writing code, and debugging systems in production. The company is committed to fostering an inclusive community and encourages everyone to apply for available positions.
Responsibilities
- Help to scale and improve Vercel's infrastructure, availability, and reliability
- Work closely with backend engineers and product team to identify problems, create tooling and automation
- Design systems, write code, and debug systems in production
- Orchestrate deployment, serving and hosting for customers through capabilities and tooling
- Leverage own and other cloud providers' infrastructure for networking, routing, storage, caching and purging
- Protect the Vercel platform from abuse - security is a top priority
- Experiment, challenge norms and deliver secure, reliable and performant systems that delight Vercel's users
- Have deep experience with how to make systems scale in the cloud
- Knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, network protocols, standards and deviations
- Comfortable in typescript, golang. Lua experience is nice-to-have.
Requirements
- Solid background in software engineering
- Familiarity with Cloud Services (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, or others), Node.js, Terraform, or Kubernetes
- Comfortable designing systems, writing code, and debugging systems in production
- Knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, network protocols, standards and deviations
- Comfortable in typescript, golang. Lua experience is nice-to-have
- Intrigued by the challenges faced by building other engineer's code
- Deep experience with how to make systems scale in the cloud
- Keen to experiment, challenge norms and deliver secure, reliable and performant systems that delight Vercel's users
- Want to help protect the Vercel platform from abuse - security is a top priority
- Next.js or React expertise is a bonus, but not required.