This role is ideal for a seasoned backend or systems engineer with at least 5 years of experience who thrives on high-stakes infrastructure. You should have a d
Work type: hybrid
Location: Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City
Salary: $196,000 – $294,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is ideal for a seasoned backend or systems engineer with at least 5 years of experience who thrives on high-stakes infrastructure. You should have a deep understanding of how the internet works—specifically web servers and network protocols—and be comfortable writing high-performance code in **Go** to handle billions of requests. The compensation is highly competitive, starting at **$196k+**, and includes equity in a high-growth company central to the modern web ecosystem. You’ll have the flexibility of a "remote-first" culture unless you live near the SF or NYC hubs, where a hybrid schedule applies. This is a rare chance to work on the "Edge," building systems that serve petabytes of data for world-class brands. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Are a **Go (Golang)** expert who enjoys debugging complex systems in production. * Have experience scaling cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) to handle massive traffic spikes and mitigate abuse. * Want to work on the "metal" of the web, focusing on TLS termination, routing, and caching. * Prefer a "just ship it" culture where you have the autonomy to experiment and challenge architectural norms.
## About Vercel:
Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web.
Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things.
## About the Role:
Vercel is looking for engineers to help us build functional systems that improve product and customer experience. As a member of the Edge team, you will help to scale and improve our infrastructure, availability and reliability by working with our backend engineers and product team to identify problems, create tooling and automation.
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.
If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF or NY), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.
## About You: