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$172,000 – $258,000
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What this role is
This role builds and maintains the services that power Vercel's global CDN, focusing on caching architecture and content delivery across 20+ regions. You'll work on performance-critical infrastructure serving billions of requests, progressing from well-scoped projects to larger system ownership while learning how planet-scale CDN systems work.
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
- Next.js
- 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 and web fundamentals including caching headers and proxy behavior
- Tested, instrumented, and well-documented code
- Ability to investigate unfamiliar code and production data independently
- Clear communication and reliable collaboration
Nice to have
- Experience with caching systems (CDNs, Redis, Memcached)
- AWS experience, particularly S3 or ElastiCache
- Experience with Next.js or modern web frameworks and rendering modes (SSR/SSG/ISR)
- Observability tooling experience (Datadog, Honeycomb, or similar)
- Terraform or Kubernetes experience