Software Engineer, Scheduled Tasks
Vercel · Hybrid - San Francisco
About this role
## About Vercel Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what’s next. For more than a decade, we’ve helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. We’re scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software—built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. --- ## About the Role The Scheduled Tasks team builds the platform primitives that let applications and agents run work now, later, or for a long time. We own **Vercel Workflows, Queues, and Cron**—the systems developers use to build long-running, event-driven, and scheduled applications. You’ll join a team at the intersection of developer experience and distributed systems. Together, you’ll build and scale products that make it straightforward for developers to coordinate background work, move messages between services, and schedule work with confidence. --- ## What You Will Do - Design, build, and operate platform capabilities across **Workflows, Queues, and Cron** - Help developers build applications and agents that coordinate background, event-driven, and scheduled work - Build **APIs, SDKs, and tooling** to define, run, and manage durable work at scale - Work on distributed-systems foundations behind scheduling, message delivery, execution, retries, and state - Partner with product, developer experience, and infrastructure teams to turn customer needs into clear developer primitives - Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design reviews, well-tested code, production ownership, and clear technical communication - Engage with developers and the open-source community to understand where background jobs, queues, and scheduling create friction—and use that feedback to improve the platform --- ## About You - 5+ years of experience building and operating **distributed systems**, developer platforms, or cloud infrastructure - Experience with **TypeScript/JavaScript** and open-source infrastructure or developer tools is a plus - Comfortable working across **APIs, runtimes, storage, networking, and production operations** - Experience with one or more of: job queues, schedulers, workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, state machines, stream processing, or durable execution - Understand tradeoffs behind delivery guarantees, retries, idempotency, concurrency, and fault tolerance—and can turn those tradeoffs into usable product primitives - Write high-quality, well-tested code and enjoy solving complex technical problems - Communicate clearly, collaborate well across teams, and help a growing team converge on strong technical decisions --- ## Benefits - Competitive compensation package, including equity - Inclusive healthcare package - Learn and Grow: mentorship and opportunities to build your network and skills - Flexible time off - Gear you need for the role, plus a WFH budget to outfit your space - Base pay range: **$196,000.00 – $312,000.00** (actual salary depends on skills, experience, and location). Total compensation may include benefits, equity, and eligibility for bonus/variable pay. Vercel is committed to fostering an inclusive community and encourages everyone to apply—even if you don’t check every box. --- ## Disclosures - **Privacy:** Please review our Job Applicant Privacy Policy for more information on how we handle your data. - **Equal Opportunity:** Vercel is committed to equal opport
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