Careers at Vercel

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. As a Software Engineer on our Trust & Safety Engineering team at Vercel, you’ll build and operate systems that protect millions of developers and projects from abuse at internet scale. You’ll analyze real-world threat actor behavior, detect emerging abuse patterns across large datasets, and design production-ready mitigations to keep the platform safe without slowing developers. This role blends security engineering, data analysis, and applied LLM techniques, working closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams to turn evolving threats into scalable defenses. If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), 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. What you will do: Analyze threat actor behavior and evolving abuse patterns across large, heterogeneous datasets to inform detection logic, policy decisions, and scalable mitigations. Research, prototype, and implement state-of-the-art LLM-driven techniques for abuse detection, classification, and prevention. Design and develop production-ready systems that detect and disrupt abusive behavior across the Vercel platform. Build, maintain, and fine-tune internal tools, datasets, and evaluation pipelines for trust and safety workflows. Collaborate closely with security, product, and infrastructure teams to bring research ideas into stable, scalable production systems. About You: 5+ years of experience in abuse prevention, trust & safety, or security engineering. Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python. Hands-on experience working with LLMs, including prompt engineering, evaluation, and fine-tuning. Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, including AWS. Strong understanding of real-world threat actor behavior and abuse tactics. Experience owning systems end-to-end, from initial research through production deployment and iteration. Benefits & Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $196,000 - $294,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the role: Developers are building faster than ever. Humans and agents are deploying more than 6 million times a day on Vercel, spinning up over 2 million Sandboxes and serving a trillion requests per month. Every single one is powered by our own compute infrastructure . The Persistence team sits within Vercel's Compute division. This team owns the deep infrastructure within Hive (our compute platform) focussing on storage and state for all our workloads (Builds, Sandboxes and Functions). This work is redefining compute with features like Fluid Compute, Persistent Sandboxes, and Custom Images. As a Software Engineer on the Persistence team, you'll work on the infrastructure that runs 100s of instances across every region where our customers deploy code, rethinking low-level primitives and contributing to platform features that improve the experience for thousands of developers every day. This role is based in London, UK . If you're within commuting distance of our London office, the role includes in-office anchor days. If you're located further afield within the UK, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team. What you will do: Manage and improve our fleet of clusters, running 100s of instances deployed in every region where our customers deploy and run their code. Write Golang on a daily basis and use Terraform to provision infrastructure; you'll get to know Nomad as our scheduler for managing workloads. Rethink the primitives of our infrastructure — working with virtual filesystems, Linux primitives, and low-level virtualisation. Own the reliability and performance of our compute platform, including on-call coverage for a team where every improvement has outsized impact at scale. Collaborate across teams to drive the convergence of all compute at Vercel. About you: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with Golang strongly preferred. Deep experience with virtual machines, file systems and Linux — you like knowing how things work under the hood (tcpdump, strace, and iptables are familiar tools). Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale; you design for performance and reliability. Experience with schedulers and orchestrators for managing containers and non-containerised workloads (e.g. Nomad, Kubernetes). Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a genuine enthusiasm for digging into problems that don't have obvious solutions. Bonus if you: Have worked on low-level virtualisation or sandbox execution environments. Have product engineering experience and care about the developer-facing impact of infrastructure decisions. Have experience with on-call operations for large-scale distributed systems. Benefits: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. #LI-KR1 Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. 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: 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! Benefits & Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $196,000-$294,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. #LI-DNI Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the role: We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Platform team. You will build the observability systems that give Vercel visibility into how we build, ship, and operate our systems. Core Platform owns Vercel’s reliability, resilience, and engineering velocity. We’re looking for engineers to create observability for everything from cost attribution to deployment velocity, alongside the logs, metrics, and traces necessary to optimize how Vercel builds its systems. This is a role with a wide breadth where we quickly develop critical systems and improve the entire Vercel code base. You will report to Eric Larson, Engineering Manager, Platform and will be located onsite, hybrid, or remote. If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, even if the role is listed as remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team. What you will do: Design and build high-scale, internal observability systems (metrics, logs, and traces) that give engineering and the business visibility into Vercel's own infrastructure. Build cost attribution and chargeback tooling so spend can be accurately mapped to the parts of the business driving it, reducing reliance on third-party tools like Datadog. Partner with Backend and Platform teams to instrument services for compliance, auditing, and record-keeping requirements. Evaluate, integrate, and help operate observability infrastructure across our existing vendors and the CNCF ecosystem. Ship pragmatic, high-leverage visibility quickly that drives improvement in how we build, deploy, and operate our systems. Work closely with Backend and Platform engineers to scale observability infrastructure to the throughput and cardinality of Vercel's full production traffic. About you: Proficient in TypeScript, with backend/infrastructure experience. Hands-on experience with Go, Rust, or Zig in production systems. Experience with distributed computing systems at scale. Experience with cloud infrastructure, including object storage. Familiarity with observability tooling and concepts (Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, or CNCF-based stacks such as Prometheus-compatible backends). Bonus if you: Have contributed to or worked closely with CNCF observability projects. Built, scaled, and improved internal developer platforms. Benefits & Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000-$312,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the Role: We are seeking a Backend leaning Software Engineer. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance systems. Leveraging JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, SQL and NoSQL cloud-native databases, and AWS, you will develop innovative solutions for user, group, and membership management while ensuring the highest levels of security and reliability. If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), 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. What You Will Do: Enable us to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable services that exceed industry standards and customer expectations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale projects with cross-team dependencies. Collaborate with peer teams to deliver solutions that meet industry standards and customer expectations. Maintain and operate services at high scale, participating in scheduled on-call rotations to ensure reliability. Implement identity synchronization and lifecycle management solutions using SCIM and other relevant standards. Work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes, etc.) to deliver scalable, high-availability applications. Build and maintain high-quality enterprise software using TypeScript, REST APIs, and JSON. About You: Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js. Strong knowledge of security architecture, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, OAuth2, OpenID Connect and web protocols like XML, SOAP, JSON, and REST. Familiarity with access control models such as RBAC, ABAC and ReBAC. Experience with SQL. Practical experience developing and improving applications written in Node.js. Exhibit excellent problem-solving abilities and effective communication skills, especially when collaborating with diverse teams. Benefits & Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $196,000-$294,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. #LI-CL1 Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the role: We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Agent Stack team and help build eve — Vercel's framework for building production-ready AI agents. Eve is to agents what Next.js is to web apps: an opinionated, batteries-included framework that lets developers write only what's unique about their agent and have the platform handle the rest. You will design and implement core framework primitives, contribute to eve's runtime (built on Vercel Workflows, AI SDK, and Sandbox), and help shape the developer experience for the next generation of AI-native applications. You will report to the Director of Vercel's Agent Stack and will be located onsite in New York City . If you're based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, even if the role is listed as remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team. What you will do: Design and ship core eve framework features — the file-system conventions, compiler, and runtime that turn an agent directory into a durable, production-ready agent on Vercel. Build and maintain integrations across eve's channel layer (Slack, Web Chat, WhatsApp, API, Cron, and more) and connections layer (Vercel Connect / MCP endpoints). Collaborate with the AI SDK, Workflows, and Sandbox teams to ensure eve's primitives compose seamlessly on the Vercel platform. Drive DX quality — CLI ergonomics, error messages, docs, and examples — so TypeScript/Next.js developers can ship their first agent in minutes. Contribute to eve's evaluation and observability story: test suites, scoring rubrics, and deployment-time evals that make agents production-safe. Partner with early customers and internal teams to gather feedback, diagnose agent reliability issues, and iterate rapidly. About you: 5+ years of production TypeScript/JavaScript experience; comfortable owning complex, stateful systems end to end. Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts — durable execution, checkpointing, async workflows, and failure recovery. Experience building or operating developer tooling, frameworks, or SDKs used by external developers. Familiarity with LLM APIs and agent orchestration patterns (tool calling, multi-agent delegation, human-in-the-loop flows). Track record of shipping high-quality open-source or customer-facing APIs and caring deeply about API design. Benefits & Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The New York, NY base pay range for this role is $208,000-$312,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of NYC may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. #LI-KR1 Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the Role: As a member of the AI Gateway Team, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing our AI Gateway platform, which provides a unified API for accessing hundreds of AI models from multiple providers. You will collaborate with a remote and distributed team of engineers to build reliable, low-latency systems that handle rate limiting, intelligent failovers, and seamless integrations, enabling developers to ship AI-powered applications without managing provider-specific complexities. This role focuses on ensuring production-ready reliability for AI workloads, including automatic fallbacks during outages and consistent performance across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more. What You Will Do: 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. About You: 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) Experience contributing to or participating in open source projects Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment Benefits & Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $196,000-$294,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. #LI-KR1 Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About The Role: Vercel builds and maintains a broad portfolio of open source projects that power the modern web, running in millions of applications. Your primary focus will be Turborepo, Nuxt, Svelte/SvelteKit, SWR, Workflow, and Nitro . A single structural fix at the framework level protects every one of those applications at once, which makes this one of the highest-leverage security roles at the company. We're looking for a security engineer who loves finding a whole class of vulnerability and eliminating it in one move, not someone who's satisfied filing one bug at a time. You'll run deep security assessments of framework internals (routing, middleware, caching, server actions, the build pipeline), find the systemic patterns that produce entire families of bugs, and drive the framework-level fixes and design changes that remove them permanently. You'll also own how these projects handle externally reported vulnerabilities, coordinated disclosure, and CVEs, working directly with maintainers and the open source security community. This includes hands-on ownership of Vercel's open source bug bounty program for these projects: triaging incoming reports, validating and reproducing findings, and driving fixes with the right maintainers. What You Will Do: Hunt for vulnerability classes, not individual bugs: Run deep security assessments of framework internals (routing, middleware, caching, data fetching, server actions/RSC boundaries, build tooling) to find the systemic design patterns that produce whole families of issues. Drive root-cause framework fixes: Push design changes upstream that eliminate a category of vulnerability across every application built on the framework, rather than patching individual instances as they're reported. Own vulnerability disclosure and CVEs: Triage security reports from the community and researchers across Turborepo, Nuxt, Svelte/SvelteKit, SWR, Workflow, Nitro, and other maintained OSS projects. Coordinate embargoed fixes, write and publish advisories, and manage the CVE/CNA process end to end. Run the OSS bug bounty program for these projects: Own triage and validation of incoming reports to Vercel's open source bug bounty program for Turborepo, Nuxt, Svelte/SvelteKit, SWR, Workflow, and Nitro. Reproduce findings, assess severity, and coordinate fixes with the right maintainers and researchers. Get security into design early: Partner with framework maintainers and core teams during RFCs and design review, so new features ship with security considered from the first draft, not bolted on after a report comes in. Build preventive tooling: Contribute linters, codemods, and CI checks that catch regressions of previously-fixed vulnerability classes before they land again. Own supply chain security for these projects: Harden how dependencies, releases, and published packages for Turborepo, Nuxt, Svelte/SvelteKit, SWR, Workflow, and Nitro are built, signed, and distributed. As more contributions and dependency updates are generated or assisted by AI agents, build the review and provenance practices that keep that increased volume safe. Work with the community, not around it: Engage directly with maintainers, contributors, and external researchers as peers. Bring pragmatic security recommendations to project discussions in a way that respects how these projects actually get built, and represent Vercel in coordinated disclosure norms and working groups when an issue spans multiple ecosystems. About You: You've actually used or broken these frameworks: You've built real things with Turborepo, Nuxt, Svelte/SvelteKit, SWR, Workflow, or Nitro (or closely comparable projects), or you've found and reported security issues in them. This is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have: we need someone who understands what these projects actually do and how they're actually used, not a generalist parachuting in. You have a deep appreciation and respect for open source work: You understand that these are community projects with maintainers, contributors, and users who care deeply about them, and you treat that with the seriousness it deserves. You're not here to slow the project down with process for its own sake. 4+ years in security engineering, ideally with real hands-on open source contribution experience. You've actually sent PRs to projects like these, not just filed issues against them. You're energized by root cause, not remediation count: Finding the one design flaw that kills fifty potential bugs is more satisfying to you than closing fifty tickets one at a time. You can read framework internals, not just application code: Strong JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals and genuine familiarity with how modern meta-frameworks work under the hood (routing, SSR/RSC, middleware, bundling/build systems). Pragmatic, not theoretical: You can weigh real-world risk against maintainer and community bandwidth, and land on security improvements that actually ship, rather than the theoretically ideal fix that never gets merged. Vulnerability research chops: Experience with structured security assessment methodology and coordinated/responsible disclosure processes, including handling embargoes and writing clear advisories. Clear communicator: You can explain a vulnerability, a tradeoff, or a design recommendation clearly to maintainers, contributors, and non-security engineers alike, in writing and in conversation. Comfortable operating in public: You're used to working transparently with external researchers, maintainers, and the community, not just inside a company's four walls. Bonus if you have: CVE credits or published security research, especially in JavaScript frameworks or the Node ecosystem. Maintained or heavily contributed to a widely used open source project. Experience with supply chain security tooling (Sigstore, SLSA/provenance, dependency and package scanning). Thought about how increasing AI-agent-authored contributions change the risk model for open source maintenance. Run or triaged for a bug bounty / vulnerability disclosure program before, ideally for open source projects. Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000.00 - $312,000.00. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the Role The Next.js team builds the open source framework that powers millions of applications and shapes how developers build for the web. Our work sits at the intersection of React, framework architecture, developer experience, infrastructure, performance, and production reliability. We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead to help build and lead a team working on Next.js. This is a hands-on player/coach role for an experienced engineer who wants to remain close to the code while helping a small team do its best work. You will be an engineer first and a manager second. You will contribute directly to the framework, lead major technical initiatives, review code, debug complex production issues, and help make architectural decisions. You will also support the engineers around you through clear direction, thoughtful feedback, and practical coaching. This is not a traditional people management role. You will spend the majority of your time on technical leadership and engineering execution. You should be comfortable owning difficult parts of the codebase while creating enough context and clarity for others to move quickly. You will work closely with Product, Design, and engineers across Vercel to guide the evolution of Next.js across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, and developer tooling. What You Will Do: Build and ship Next.js: Write production code, review pull requests, debug difficult issues, and contribute directly to the framework and its supporting systems. Lead major technical initiatives: Take ownership of complex projects from initial exploration through architecture, implementation, rollout, and production follow-through. Set technical direction: Make sound architectural decisions across rendering, caching, routing, build systems, runtime behavior, and developer tooling. Stay close to real problems: Investigate performance regressions, production failures, and developer pain points. Turn what you learn into practical improvements to the framework. Raise the engineering bar: Establish strong patterns for code quality, testing, performance, reliability, observability, and incremental delivery. Coach through the work: Help engineers grow through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, technical feedback, and shared ownership of challenging problems. Provide focused people leadership: Set clear expectations, give candid feedback, support career development, and help maintain a high-trust and accountable team. Improve team execution: Create lightweight planning and decision-making practices that clarify ownership, reduce unnecessary coordination, and help the team ship consistently. Partner across Vercel: Work with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Developer Experience, and other engineering teams so framework changes integrate cleanly across the Vercel platform. Champion open source: Work in public, engage thoughtfully with contributors, and balance community needs with the team’s product and technical priorities. Help grow the team: Participate in recruiting, assess technical talent, and help new engineers become productive in a complex codebase. About You: You have 8+ years of software engineering experience and remain highly effective as a hands-on engineer. You have led engineers or small technical teams, whether as a team lead, tech lead, staff engineer, engineering manager, or founder. You have recent experience writing, reviewing, and shipping production code. You are not looking to step away from engineering execution. You have strong technical judgment across React, framework architecture, or the systems behind a large-scale open source project, including rendering, caching, routing, build tooling, and runtime behavior. You can take a complex technical problem, form a clear point of view, write the critical code, and bring other engineers along with you. You know when to lead from the front and when to create space for someone else to take ownership. You have experience building products or infrastructure for developers and understand the quality, performance, stability, and usability standards this audience expects. You think in systems and can guide a team toward clean abstractions, consistent framework patterns, and technical decisions that hold up at scale. You are comfortable working through ambiguity and solving problems from first principles. You balance speed and quality. You favor incremental delivery and real-world feedback while recognizing when foundational infrastructure requires deeper investment. You communicate clearly in writing, facilitate productive technical debate, and make decisions when a path forward is needed. You use AI tools in your own workflow and have informed opinions about how agentic products should work for developers. Bonus Experience maintaining or contributing to a major open source project, particularly in the React or Next.js ecosystem. Experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure. Experience leading a small, senior engineering team while continuing to make substantial individual contributions. Experience forming a team or technical direction from zero to one. Familiarity with the Next.js codebase, though this is not required. Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive healthcare package. Learning and growth support, including mentorship and opportunities to attend events that build your network and skills. Flexible time off. The equipment you need to do your role, plus a work-from-home budget to outfit your space. The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $230,000 to $340,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program, depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the Role: The next generation of software won’t just be used by people — it’ll be built and shipped by agents. Builds are where that happens, and they’re the beating heart of Vercel. Whether an idea starts in v0, in an agent, or in an engineer’s editor, every customer builds — and millions of builds flow through our systems every day. As an engineer on the Agentic Infrastructure team, you’ll take ownership of the systems that carry that work at scale. You won’t just contribute features — you’ll be responsible for the design, reliability, and evolution of the platform itself. You’ll make decisions that shape performance, define best practices, and ensure the workflows that Vercel, our customers, and their agents depend on are fast, resilient, and secure. This role blends product thinking with deep systems ownership. You’ll partner with teams across Vercel to build and operate the agentic infrastructure that determines how software actually ships. We’re looking for engineers who want to own high-scale systems end-to-end, thrive on improving the developer/agent experience, and are driven to have a lasting impact on how modern software gets built and delivered. What You Will Do: Own and evolve the infrastructure that powers Vercel’s build and deployment lifecycle — from handling webhooks to designing resilient database schemas and building scalable APIs. Design and operate high-performance microservices that process millions of builds daily, ensuring speed, reliability, and developer delight. Lead projects end-to-end: from identifying opportunities to defining technical direction and delivering improvements in performance, reliability, and developer experience. Collaborate across teams to align infrastructure with company-wide goals and ensure seamless developer workflows. Shape the long-term vision of agentic infrastructure at Vercel by setting standards for scalability, reliability, and developer productivity. Participate in the on-call rotation, taking responsibility for the reliability of critical systems. Contribute to the open-source community, representing Vercel’s commitment to advancing developer tools globally. Write clean, efficient, tested, and well-documented code that others can build upon confidently. About You: 3+ years of experience designing, building, and operating backend applications and distributed systems at scale. Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to navigate and improve complex systems. Strong proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and infrastructure as code (Terraform) A track record of end-to-end ownership — from design and implementation through to long-term operation in production. Skilled at cross-team collaboration, able to influence priorities and drive alignment toward shared goals. Able to reason about technical direction and architectural tradeoffs, balancing long-term vision with pragmatic delivery. Invested in the people around you — through mentorship, code review, or simply raising the bar on how the team builds. Curious, eager to learn, and motivated to push the boundaries of how modern software gets built and shipped. Bonus If You: Are familiar with React or Next.js Have experience with DynamoDB Have worked to develop a CI/CD platform or internal developer platform used by other engineers or by agents. Have experience contributing to, or participating in open-source projects. Have experience optimizing build systems for monorepos or polyrepo setups. Have experience with build caching, artifact storage, or dependency management at scale. Benefits & Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed. The base pay range for this role is $196,000.00 - $294,000.00. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role. Your recruiter can share more details during the hiring process. #LI-KR1 Disclosures: Privacy: Please review our J ob Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. Equal Opportunity: Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.