Role at a glance
- Salary
- $196K – $294K/yr
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States New York City, California, United States
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- You have at least 5+ years of relevant experience
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Role Summary
As a member of Vercel’s AI Gateway Team, this role develops and enhances a unified API platform for accessing AI models from multiple providers. The role focuses on reliable, low-latency production systems for AI workloads, including rate limiting, intelligent failovers, provider integrations, and consistent performance.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain AI Gateway features including unified API endpoints, rate limit management, and intelligent failover...
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code and conduct testing for low-latency responses and stability under high-volume AI...
- Collaborate with product managers, AI researchers, and infrastructure engineers to integrate new AI providers and models and address...
- Contribute to the open-source community, including the AI SDK and related projects.
- Use user feedback and analytics to drive improvements such as billing unification, provider-agnostic authentication, and usage insights.
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View full postingQualifications
Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript; experience with backend development, APIs, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML integrations, API gateways, distributed systems, or high-throughput services; experience contributing to or participating in open source projects; excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Required
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Backend development
- APIs
- Cloud infrastructure
- AI/ML integrations
- API gateways
- Distributed systems
- High-throughput services
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About Vercel:
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company. We free people and agents to ship what’s next.
For more than a decade, Vercel has shaped how the web is built. As the team behind Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, we create products that help builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.
Now, software is entering a new era, and the next generation of products will not just be used by people. They will be built, extended, and operated by agents.
We are building the platform for that future, trusted by companies like OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. Whether you’re building our products, supporting our customers, growing our community, or shaping our story, you’ll help define what comes next.
As a member of the AI Gateway Team, you will be responsible for developing and enhancing our AI Gateway platform, which provides a unified API for accessing hundreds of AI models from multiple providers. You will collaborate with a remote and distributed team of engineers to build reliable, low-latency systems that handle rate limiting, intelligent failovers, and seamless integrations, enabling developers to ship AI-powered applications without managing provider-specific complexities. This role focuses on ensuring production-ready reliability for AI workloads, including automatic fallbacks during outages and consistent performance across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
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.
About the company
Vercel
Mid-size Company
Vercel is a leading platform for frontend developers focused on enhancing the performance and user experience of web applications. Founded in 2015, Vercel specializes in serverless deployment and offers tools to streamline the development process, such as automatic scaling and rapid iteration capabilities. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and efficiency, Vercel empowers teams to deploy high-quality websites and applications quickly, making it an essential partner for developers looking to leverage innovative web technologies.
Vercel is a leading platform for frontend developers focused on enhancing the performance and user experience of web applications. Founded in 2015, Vercel specializes in serverless deployment and offers tools to streamline the development process, such as automatic scaling and rapid iteration capabilities. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and efficiency, Vercel empowers teams to deploy high-quality websites and applications quickly, making it an essential partner for developers looking to leverage innovative web technologies.