Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vercel is a company that provides developers with tools and cloud infrastructure to build and secure web applications. The role involves developing and enhancing the AI Gateway platform, ensuring reliable and low-latency systems for AI workloads while collaborating with a distributed team.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the AI Gateway platform, emphasizing features like unified API endpoints, rate limit management, and intelligent failover mechanisms to boost uptime and reliability
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, conducting thorough testing to ensure low-latency responses and stability for high-volume AI inference requests
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, AI researchers, and infrastructure engineers, to integrate new AI providers and models while addressing scalability and performance challenges
- Engage with the open-source community, contribute to AI SDK and related projects, and align with Vercel's ethos of fostering developer tools
- Gather user feedback and analytics to drive innovations in AI Gateway, such as enhanced billing unification, provider-agnostic authentication, and analytics for usage insights
Skills
- You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with backend development, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with AI/ML integrations, API gateways, distributed systems, or handling high-throughput services (e.g., rate limiting, caching, failovers)
- Experience contributing to or participating in open source projects
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
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.
- The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role.
Company Overview
Vercel is a developer platform that provides cloud infrastructure services for the web. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Covina, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://vercel.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Vercel has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 4 in 2026, 4 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 5 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.