Software Engineer, Lua

Vercel is a company that provides tools and cloud infrastructure for developers to enhance web experiences. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join their CDN Infrastructure team to improve services and reliability, while collaborating with backend engineers to design systems and solve complex problems.

Responsibilities:

• Create new primitives to expand the product feature set of Vercel CDN
• Optimize the Vercel CDN experience to improve reliability and lower latency
• Analyze web latency to find sources of tail latency
• Advance the developer experience for 15+ developers working primarily in Lua
• Other examples of what you would work on: https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-made-global-routing-faster-with-bloom-filters https://vercel.com/blog/cdn-request-collapsing

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with Lua
• Are knowledgeable and experienced with web servers, & HTTP
• 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 innovation
• Are keen to experiment, challenge norms and deliver secure and reliable systems that delight Vercel's users
• Comfortable in Golang