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$172,000 – $258,000
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What this role is
You'll build and operate Vercel's global CDN infrastructure, focusing on performance and caching for billions of requests across 20+ regions. This role suits backend engineers who want to grow from well-scoped projects into larger system ownership while learning planet-scale distributed systems.
Our summary, not Vercel’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Datadog
- Go
- HTTP
- Kubernetes
- Lua
- Node.js
- Terraform
- TypeScript
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What they ask for
Required
- 2+ years building and operating backend services in production
- Proficiency in Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or comparable systems language
- Understanding of HTTP, caching headers, request/response lifecycle, and proxies
- Code that is tested, instrumented, and documented
- Ability to understand large-scale systems and work with unfamiliar code and production data
- Clear communication and collaborative teamwork
Nice to have
- Experience with caching systems (CDNs, Redis/Memcached, or application-level caches)
- AWS experience, particularly S3 or ElastiCache
- Familiarity with Next.js or modern web frameworks and rendering modes (SSR/SSG/ISR)
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Honeycomb, etc.)
- Experience with Terraform or Kubernetes