Software Engineer, CI/CD

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

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.

This role focuses on the CI/CD team, responsible for the infrastructure that powers Vercel’s build processes at scale. You’ll be instrumental in improving performance, reliability, and developer experience, directly impacting how software is shipped on the web.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience building full-stack applications.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs and distributed systems.
• Experience building intuitive user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks like React or Svelte.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with modern frontend development tools.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Eagerness to learn and contribute to a team.
• Strong opinions about how to architect scalable codebases.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance microservices that power the entire deployment lifecycle—from handling webhooks to designing database schemas and building scalable APIs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the Vercel build pipeline.
• Improve the Deployments user interface.
• Identify opportunities and lead projects to enhance performance, reliability, and developer experience of CI/CD on Vercel.
• Improve the developer experience for both small projects and large monorepos.
• 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.

Bonus If You

• Are a React or Next.js expert.
• Have worked to develop a CI/CD platform for other developers to use.
• Have experience contributing to, or participating in open source projects.

Company Information

Vercel provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. They serve a diverse customer base including Under Armour, eBay, The Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, and Zapier.