Software Engineer - Build Infrastructure

About the Role:

CI/CD is the beating heart of Vercel. Developers & agents alike create over 1 million builds per day on Vercel. Whether they’re previewing a new idea from v0 or shipping the next great thing to production every customer builds.

As a Software Engineer on the CI/CD team you’re responsible for building the infrastructure that powers all of these builds at scale. You’ll work on refining the reliability of the system accelerate its performance and transform how customers interact with builds on Vercel. This role blends product thinking with deep systems work — you'll be building features that serve both internal teams and Vercel's global developer community.

We're looking for engineers who are excited to work on high-scale systems love improving the developer experience and want to have a direct impact on how software gets shipped on the web.

If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (London or Berlin) the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday Tuesday and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance in the UK or German the role is fully remote. For location-specific details please connect with our recruiting team.

What You Will Do:

• Build & maintain our mission critical build system and the micro-services which power it.

• Engage and collaborate with open-source project owners to improve the performance of their frameworks on Vercel. Aligning Vercel's commitment to giving back to the developer community.

• Participate in an on-call rotation for the Vercel build pipeline.

• Write clean efficient tested and well-documented code.

About You:

• 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience.

• Practical experience building running and debugging distributed systems.

• Familiarity with containerisation and Linux systems.

• Strong proficiency at least one of JavaScript/TypeScript/Go.

• Excellent problem solving and communication skills. An enthusiasm for digging into problems with unknown solutions.

Bonus If You:

• Built and maintained CI/CD systems

• Have UI / UX / Product engineering experience

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.

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.