Software Engineer, AI Gateway

Vercel · Hybrid - San Francisco · Engineering · listed February 12, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$196,000 – $294,000
Requirements listed
4
Length
400 words

What it asks for · 4

  • 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with backend development, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with AI/ML integrations, API gateways, distributed systems, or handling high-throughput services (e.g., rate limiting, caching, failovers)
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment

What the job covers

  • Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the AI Gateway platform, emphasizing features like unified API endpoints, rate limit management, and intelligent failover mechanisms to boost uptime and reliability.
  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, conducting thorough testing to ensure low-latency responses and stability for high-volume AI inference requests.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, AI researchers, and infrastructure engineers, to integrate new AI providers and models while addressing scalability and performance challenges.
  • Engage with the open-source community, contribute to AI SDK and related projects, and align with Vercel's ethos of fostering developer tools.
  • Gather user feedback and analytics to drive innovations in AI Gateway, such as enhanced billing unification, provider-agnostic authentication, and analytics for usage insights.

Tools and skills named

Languages
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
Models & research
  • Inference
  • Machine learning
Ways of working
  • Cross-functional
  • Testing
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems

Words the posting leans on

  • experience4×
  • gateway3×
  • status3×
  • analytics2×
  • api2×
  • community2×
  • contribute2×
  • failover2×
  • fostering2×
  • infrastructure2×
  • privacy2×
  • projects2×
  • rate2×

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