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Vercel

Software Engineer, Next.js

Required : • Strong React expertise • Passion for open source and developer communities • Background in framework development, developer tooling, or product infrastructure • Comfort working ...

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Community Manager, Developers & Open Source

This role will build and manage relationships with developers, maintain and grow open-source ... developer Slack/Discord groups to position the company as a trusted resource #LI-AG1 #LI-Remote

DevSelect

DevOps Engineer

Redmond, WA · On-site +1

$59 - $81/hr

Continue to evolve and modernize our open source DevOps for the Client engineering team by making build, test, and publish easier, faster, more stable, and more secure. * Contribute to our cloud ...

Onehouse

Senior Software Engineer, Open Source (US)

$125K - $165K/yr

The Senior Software Engineer on the Open Source team will play a pivotal role in shaping the vision and roadmap for Apache Hudi, collaborating across teams to ensure integration and community ...

Apex Informatics

Open-Source Database Administrator

Open-Source Database Administrator (DBA) Must have HA solutions, strong Linux environment, Maria DB ... Work closely with engineering teams to support application integration and scalability. * Implement ...

NetApp

Director, Product Mgmt (Open Source Experience)

$238K - $249K/yr

... engineering and architecture leaders to shape platform capabilities including: Data ingestion and ... NetApp's open source data infrastructure product strategy, including decisions around build vs ...

Percona LLC

We're hiring a Developer Advocate to close that gap. Your job is to make Percona's solutions easier ... Show up in the communities behind the open source projects Percona builds on - MySQL, PostgreSQL ...

Vercel

Software Engineer, Next.js

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

$208K - $312K/yr

Passion for open source and developer communities * Background in framework development, developer tooling, or product infrastructure * Comfort working across frontend, backend, build tooling, and ...

Arize AI

Senior Open Source Design Engineer

$175K - $200K/yr

Think deeply about interaction design, information architecture, and developer experience * Are ... While we are a remote-first company, we have opened offices in New York City and the San Francisco ...

Mozilla

0->1 Engineer, Open Source AI

If a developer or their coding assistant keeps reaching for the wrong primitive, that's yours to fix. * Be the technical practitioner in the room when it matters - a WICG call, a hackathon, a GitHub ...

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Software Engineer, Next.js

Software Engineer, Next.js

Vercel

Remote

Full-time

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Job description

Job Summary:
Vercel is an agentic infrastructure company that shapes how the web is built. They are looking for a Software Engineer to work on the Next.js team, focusing on open source developer infrastructure and collaborating across various technical areas including framework internals and developer tooling.
Responsibilities:
• Work across framework internals, rendering, caching, routing, build systems, developer tooling, documentation, platform integration, and user-facing product behavior.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong React expertise
• Passion for open source and developer communities
• Background in framework development, developer tooling, or product infrastructure
• Comfort working across frontend, backend, build tooling, and runtime systems
• Strong product sense and care for developer experience
• Ability to investigate deeply, debug ambiguous issues, and reason from real evidence
• High independence in a distributed team environment
• Clear written communication and strong ownership
Preferred:
• Have experience maintaining open source projects
• Have experience with compilers, bundlers, caching, rendering systems, or distributed infrastructure
• Familiarity with Next.js, though this is not required
Company:
Vercel is a developer platform that provides cloud infrastructure services for the web. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Covina, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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