Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Build and operate Vercel’s compute infrastructure across global regions. Responsibilities include writing Golang, provisioning infrastructure with Terraform, managing Nomad-scheduled clusters, working with Linux primitives, virtual filesystems, and virtualization, and improving platform reliability and performance. The role includes distributed systems development, cross-team collaboration, and on-call support.

Lead the engineering team for Vercel for Platforms, developing infrastructure that enables companies to build and operate multi-tenant platforms at scale. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, partnering cross-functionally on product strategy, contributing code, driving operational excellence, and balancing product delivery with long-term scalability and technical quality.

Build AI applications and workflows that drive revenue using Vercel AI Cloud. Partner with Sales, Marketing, Success, and Data to identify user pain, ship high-impact solutions, test new features, and publish best practices. The role involves daily software development, AI model and API integration, automation, and collaboration with GTM teams. It is remote, with office anchor days for employees near select offices.

Build and secure employee IT systems, focusing on Okta IAM, MDM, identity lifecycle workflows, access policies, device compliance, automation, and integrations. Develop scripts and APIs across Okta, MDM, Google Workspace, Slack, AWS, and IT service systems. Partner with Security on least privilege and endpoint protection, troubleshoot complex issues, document configurations, reduce technical debt, and expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and AI-assisted workflows.

Design, build, and operate Vercel’s Workflows, Queues, and Cron platform capabilities. Develop APIs, SDKs, and tooling for durable, event-driven, and scheduled workloads. Solve distributed-systems challenges involving message delivery, retries, execution, state, concurrency, and fault tolerance. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and developer experience teams, engage with developers and open-source communities, and maintain high standards for tested code, technical communication, and production ownership.

Leads and grows the Dashboard engineering team responsible for Vercel’s customer-facing developer platform. Partners with Product, Design, Data, and engineering teams to set priorities, guide frontend architecture, improve performance and reliability, contribute code, manage incidents, and balance product delivery with long-term scalability. Builds a high-performing, inclusive team while ensuring an intuitive, high-quality developer experience.

Own and evolve Vercel’s agentic infrastructure and build/deployment systems at scale. Design high-performance microservices, scalable APIs, resilient database schemas, and reliable workflows processing millions of builds daily. Lead projects from technical direction through production operation, improve performance and developer experience, collaborate cross-functionally, participate in on-call rotation, contribute to open source, and establish standards for scalability and reliability.

Build high-scale internal observability systems covering metrics, logs, traces, cost attribution, chargeback, compliance, and auditing. Partner with backend and platform teams to instrument services, evaluate observability infrastructure, and scale systems for Vercel’s production traffic. The role requires TypeScript, production experience with Go, Rust, or Zig, distributed systems expertise, cloud infrastructure knowledge, and familiarity with observability tooling.

Build and operate high-scale CDN serving and caching services for ISR, PPR, image optimization, and other content. Work across Go, Lua, and TypeScript; execute projects from implementation through progressive rollout and production validation. Develop dashboards, metrics, alerts, logs, and end-to-end tests; participate in on-call and incident follow-ups. Collaborate with Next.js and CI/CD teams while improving globally distributed systems and performance.

Software Engineering Interns will own end-to-end projects, write and review production code, debug real systems, and collaborate with experienced engineers. They will work on products impacting Vercel customers, communicate progress asynchronously, and use AI tools effectively. Applicants must be pursuing a related degree, graduating in December 2027 or May 2028, demonstrate JavaScript or TypeScript proficiency, and be based in San Francisco with availability to commute Monday, Tuesday, and Friday.