Software Engineer, CDN Content

Vercel
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 172,000 - 258,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Ownership","Data-driven problem solving","Reliability"]

Join the CDN Content team at Vercel to build and improve the services that deliver static assets, optimized images, ISR/PPR, and prerendered shells across a planet-scale global CDN. You’ll implement end-to-end serving path changes with progressive rollouts, ship dashboards and production metrics, strengthen observability and testing, and participate in on-call and incident follow-ups. Work spans Go, Lua, and TypeScript in close partnership with Next.js.

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Software Engineer, CDN Content

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Job Summary

Join the CDN Content team at Vercel to build and improve the services that deliver static assets, optimized images, ISR/PPR, and prerendered shells across a planet-scale global CDN. You’ll implement end-to-end serving path changes with progressive rollouts, ship dashboards and production metrics, strengthen observability and testing, and participate in on-call and incident follow-ups. Work spans Go, Lua, and TypeScript in close partnership with Next.js.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and improve services behind ISR, PPR, and image optimization across the CDN serving path.
  • •Execute well-defined projects end to end, including safe rollouts using feature flags, shadow modes, and progressive deployment.
  • •Monitor and maintain production systems by building dashboards, adding metrics and alerts, and owning what you ship.
  • •Improve observability and testing through dashboards, log views, and e2e test suites.
  • •Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident follow-ups to improve system resilience.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 172,000 - 258,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityLearning BudgetPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •2+ years of experience building and operating backend services in production.
  • •Proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or a comparable systems language.
  • •Solid understanding of HTTP and web fundamentals, including caching and request/response lifecycle.
  • •Ability to write code that is tested, instrumented, and documented for operation in production.
  • •Curiosity to investigate unfamiliar code and production data to solve problems.
Experience:2+ years
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationOwnershipData-driven problem solvingReliability
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoLuaTypeScriptNode.jsHTTPCDNsISRPPRImage optimizationNext.jsSSRSSGAWSS3ElastiCacheRedisMemcachedDatadogHoneycombTerraform

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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