Vercel
Software Engineer, Scheduled Tasks
Hybrid - San Francisco · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$25,187 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- You will join a team working at the intersection of developer experience and distributed systems.
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.
- 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.
- Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems, developer platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
- You are comfortable working across APIs, runtimes, storage, networking, and production operations.
- You have experience with one or more of: job queues, schedulers, workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, state machines, stream processing, or durable execution.
Nice to have
- Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and open-source infrastructure or developer tools is a plus.
Compensation
- The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role.
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- The base pay range for this role is $196,000.00 - $312,000.00.
- Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location.
- Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Flexible Time Off.
Company info
- Together, we are building and scaling the products that make it straightforward for developers to coordinate background work, move messages between services, and schedule work with confidence.
Equal opportunity
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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 pro
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