Build Systems Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: $18 (Base pay range)

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, eBay, The Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web. At Vercel, our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products and that goes hand in hand with creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life.

We are looking for a Senior Build Systems Engineer to join our CI/CD - Turborepo team. This team owns the complete end-to-end lifecycle for building, testing, and deploying your projects at Vercel, including maintaining and improving open-source tools like Turborepo and the Vercel CLI. You'll play a critical role in enhancing the efficiency, reliability, and developer experience of our build and deployment systems, supporting both internal teams and our vibrant community of developers.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of Turborepo, ensuring it meets high-performance standards and integrates seamlessly with our deployment platform.
• Identify opportunities and lead projects to enhance performance, reliability, and developer experience of CI/CD on Vercel.
• Improve developer experience for both large and small codebases.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in CI/CD technologies, bringing innovative ideas to the team.
• Engage with the open-source community, participate in discussions, and contribute to related projects, aligning with Vercel's commitment to giving back to the developer community.
• Write clean, efficient, tested, and well-documented code.

About You

• Experience: At least 5+ years of relevant experience. 1+ years writing Rust code.
• API & Systems Design: Experience designing and maintaining APIs and distributed systems.
• Frontend Proficiency: Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with modern frontend development tools.
• Interest in Developer Tooling: Intrigue by the challenges faced by building and orchestrating other engineer's code.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Opinions: You have opinions about how to architect scalable codebases.

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Frontend Expertise: React or Next.js expert.
• CLI Development: Experience building ergonomic CLIs.
• Open Source Contribution: Experience contributing to or participating in open source projects.
• Framework Knowledge: Familiarity with frontend frameworks and their build processes.
• System Knowledge: Knowledgeable about file systems, graph data structures, and software build systems.

Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Healthcare: Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learning & Growth: Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Time Off: Flexible Time Off.
• Equipment: We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.