Software Engineer, CDN

Vercel · Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City · Engineering · listed May 28, 2024

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The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$196,000 – $294,000
Requirements listed
10
Length
600 words

In the posting’s own words

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.

What it asks for · 10

  • 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 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!

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
Frameworks
  • Next.js
  • React
Languages
  • Go
  • JavaScript
Operations & finance
  • Recruiting

Words the posting leans on

  • systems5×
  • cloud4×
  • experience4×
  • customers3×
  • challenge2×
  • comfortable2×
  • distance2×
  • edge2×
  • engineers2×
  • improve2×
  • infrastructure2×
  • product2×
  • routing2×
  • scale2×
  • services2×
  • serving2×

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