Platform Engineer — Workflows, Queues & Scheduling

WebHosting; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate core primitives for Workflows, Queues, and Cron. You will help developers coordinate background, event-driven, and scheduled work at scale and deliver durable, reliable services.

Collaborating with product, developer experience, and infrastructure teams, you will craft APIs, SDKs, and tooling that feel simple and native to the platform while maintaining production ownership and strong technical

Responsibilities

• 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 that make it easy to define, run, and manage durable work at scale.
• Work on the 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, useful 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.

Job description

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate core primitives for Workflows, Queues, and Cron. You will help developers coordinate background, event-driven, and scheduled work at scale and deliver durable, reliable services.

Collaborating with product, developer experience, and infrastructure teams, you will craft APIs, SDKs, and tooling that feel simple and native to the platform while maintaining production ownership and strong technical