Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.
Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
Vercel is looking for a Customer Support Engineer to assist our customers with technical problems and questions when using Vercel products and services. Customer Support Engineer responsibilities include resolving customer concerns, creating and improving internal tooling, and engineering solutions to help Vercel customers get the most out of the platform.
To be successful in this role, you must be an excellent communicator who’s able to earn our customers’ trust and understand technical problems quickly. You will also ideally have a background in frontend development, enjoy technical writing, and have a passion for digging deep to find and resolve root causes. In addition to this, you will be comfortable with evening, weekend, and on-call work based on a rota system.
Ultimately, you will help establish our reputation as a company that is exceptional at helping its customers meet their goals throughout all parts of the customer journey while engineering solutions to constantly improve the customer experience.
What You Will Do:- Handle cases for all Vercel customers.
- Handle customer issues outside of regular case channels.
- Work with the community to provide advice and assistance.
- Develop and improve internal tools alongside engineering.
- Complete engineering work on a regular basis.
- Specialize in a specific product area and owning that within the team.
- Improve internal documentation, processes, and policies.
- Assist Customer Success Managers with Enterprise requests.
- Frontend development experience, ideally with React and Next.js.
- A firm understanding of cloud technologies and serverless computing.
- A desire to engineer solutions for problems to resolve root causes.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral.
- Comfortable working with a fully remote, globally distributed team.
- Availability to work within a weekend and on-call rota.
- A passion to deliver a customer experience second to none.
- Have experience working with backend development, especially Node.js.
- Are open to a higher-compensated Saturday-Tuesday schedule
- Have experience with CDNs and setting up cloud infrastructure.
- Work with monorepos or custom CI/CD pipelines.
- Understand DNS well and can explain this clearly to others.
- Are experienced with incident management and procedural communication.
- Use your experience to mentor other members of the team.
- Competitive compensation and stock options.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package (US only).
- Flexible working style - 100% remote, with teammates located throughout the globe.
- Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
- Unlimited PTO - 4 weeks recommended per year. Take time when you need it.
- Generous Gear Credit.
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Skills Required
- Frontend development experience
- Experience with React and Next.js
- Understanding of cloud technologies and serverless computing
- Ability to engineer solutions and resolve technical root causes
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Availability to work within a weekend and on-call rota
- Ability to work with a fully remote, globally distributed team
- Backend development experience, especially Node.js
- Experience with CDNs and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with monorepos or custom CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of DNS
- Experience with incident management and procedural communication
- Experience mentoring team members
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
From solo developers building their first app to large enterprise teams if it needs to be fast, reliable, and beautifully built, it runs on Vercel. Our platform powers millions of deployments a day. We started with a simple belief: the web should be fast for everyone, everywhere. That belief became Next.js. Then a platform. Then the infrastructure layer for the AI-native web. We are backed by the amazing team at Accel and CRV, and we're headquartered in San Francisco.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Vercel is a remote-friendly company. Some roles are in-office (SF, NYC and others), and some are fully remote. For the right candidate, flexible arrangements are available, supported by home office and wellness stipends.
