Senior Software Engineer, Workflows & Scheduling Platforms

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare package

Mentorship & events

Flexible time off

WFH gear budget

Job summary

Vercel Inc. is hiring for a role within the Scheduled Tasks team. You will design, build, and operate platform primitives that enable workflows, queues, and cron-based scheduling for durable, event-driven applications.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver simple, composable, high-quality developer primitives on our platform. You will work with engineers to improve scheduling, message delivery, and state management while contributing to an open-source ecosystem and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building distributed systems or cloud platforms.
• Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and open-source infrastructure is a plus.
• Comfort across APIs, runtimes, storage, networking, and production operations.
• Strong problem solving, testing, and cross-team collaboration.

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 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 usable primitives.
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, well-tested code, production ownership, and clear technical communication.
• Engage with developers and the open-source community to reduce friction in background jobs and scheduling.

Skills

Distributed systems

Developer platforms

TypeScript/JavaScript

Open-source tools

Tools

APIs

Job description

Vercel Inc. is hiring for a role within the Scheduled Tasks team. You will design, build, and operate platform primitives that enable workflows, queues, and cron-based scheduling for durable, event-driven applications.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver simple, composable, high-quality developer primitives on our platform. You will work with engineers to improve scheduling, message delivery, and state management while contributing to an open-source ecosystem and developer experience.