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# Software Engineer, Compute

- **Company:** Vercel
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £36,593.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Linux, File Systems, Distributed Systems, Next.js, Software Engineering, Tcpdump, Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, Iptables, Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5801187932

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering experience, with Golang strongly preferred.
 * Deep experience with virtual machines, file systems and Linux - you like knowing how things work under the hood (tcpdump, strace, and iptables are familiar tools).
 * Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale; you design for performance and reliability.
 * Experience with schedulers and orchestrators for managing containers and non-containerised workloads (e.g. Nomad, Kubernetes).
 * Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a genuine enthusiasm for digging into problems that don't have obvious solutions.

 * Have worked on low-level virtualisation or sandbox execution environments.
 * Have product engineering experience and care about the developer-facing impact of infrastructure decisions.
 * Have experience with on-call operations for large-scale distributed systems.

## Description

* Manage and improve our fleet of clusters, running 100s of instances deployed in every region where our customers deploy and run their code.
 * Write Golang on a daily basis and use Terraform to provision infrastructure; you'll get to know Nomad as our scheduler for managing workloads.
 * Rethink the primitives of our infrastructure - working with virtual filesystems, Linux primitives, and low-level virtualisation.
 * Own the reliability and performance of our compute platform, including on-call coverage for a team where every improvement has outsized impact at scale.
 * Collaborate across teams to drive the convergence of all compute at Vercel.


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