Software Engineer, Compute

Vercel • San Francisco, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Software Engineer will join Vercel’s Persistence team within the Compute division. The team owns storage and state infrastructure within Hive, Vercel’s compute platform, supporting Builds, Sandboxes, and Functions. The role focuses on infrastructure serving instances across regions where customers deploy code, and on improving platform features and low-level primitives that affect developers.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience; Golang is strongly preferred.
• Deep experience with virtual machines, file systems, and Linux, including familiarity with tools such as tcpdump, strace, and iptables.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, with attention to performance and reliability.
• Experience with schedulers and orchestrators for containerized and non-containerized workloads, such as Nomad or Kubernetes.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and enthusiasm for investigating problems without obvious solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with low-level virtualization or sandbox execution environments.
• Product engineering experience and concern for the developer-facing impact of infrastructure decisions.
• Experience with on-call operations for large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve a fleet of clusters with instances deployed across customer deployment regions.
• Write Golang and use Terraform to provision infrastructure, while working with Nomad to manage workloads.
• Rethink infrastructure primitives, including virtual filesystems, Linux primitives, and low-level virtualization.
• Own the reliability and performance of the compute platform, including on-call coverage.
• Collaborate across teams to drive the convergence of compute at Vercel.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive healthcare package.
• Mentorship and opportunities to attend events to build skills and professional networks.
• Flexible Time Off.
• Equipment needed for the role and a work-from-home budget.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed