Software Engineer, Scheduled Tasks

Vercel
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 196,000 - 312,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Clear communication","Collaboration","Design thinking","Production ownership","Technical problem-solving"]

Build and operate platform capabilities for Workflows, Queues, and Cron—Vercel’s primitives for running durable background, event-driven, and scheduled work. Design distributed-systems foundations such as message delivery, execution, retries, and state, and create APIs, SDKs, and tooling so developers can define and manage scheduled tasks confidently. Partner with product, developer experience, and infrastructure teams while raising engineering quality through design reviews and production ownership.

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Vercel
Vercel
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Software Engineer, Scheduled Tasks

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Job Summary

Build and operate platform capabilities for Workflows, Queues, and Cron—Vercel’s primitives for running durable background, event-driven, and scheduled work. Design distributed-systems foundations such as message delivery, execution, retries, and state, and create APIs, SDKs, and tooling so developers can define and manage scheduled tasks confidently. Partner with product, developer experience, and infrastructure teams while raising engineering quality through design reviews and production ownership.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate platform capabilities across Workflows, Queues, and Cron.
  • •Help developers build applications and agents that coordinate background, event-driven, and scheduled work.
  • •Build APIs, SDKs, and tooling to define, run, and manage durable work at scale.
  • •Work on distributed-systems foundations behind scheduling, message delivery, execution, retries, and state.
  • •Partner with product, developer experience, and infrastructure teams to turn customer needs into clear developer primitives.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 196,000 - 312,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityPaid LeaveHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building and operating distributed systems, developer platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
  • •Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and open-source infrastructure or developer tools.
  • •Comfort working across APIs, runtimes, storage, networking, and production operations.
  • •Experience with job queues, schedulers, workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, state machines, stream processing, or durable execution.
  • •Understand delivery guarantees, retries, idempotency, concurrency, and fault tolerance to turn tradeoffs into usable product primitives.
Experience:5+ yearsDistributed systemsDeveloper platformsCloud infrastructureOpen-source infrastructureDeveloper tools
Skills:Clear communicationCollaborationDesign thinkingProduction ownershipTechnical problem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptJavaScriptAPIsSDKsWorkflowsQueuesCron

Company Brief

Vercel
Provides a frontend cloud platform and developer tools (including Next.js and v0) that simplify building, deploying, and scaling web and AI-native applications for developers and enterprises.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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