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# Software Engineer, Compute

- **Company:** gb
Vercel
- **Location:** Wellingborough, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Linux, File Systems, Distributed Systems, Apache Hive, Next.js, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Tcpdump, Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, Iptables, Terraform, Golang
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/software-engineer/vercel-job107781058

## 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.
Bonus if you:

 * 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

Developers are building faster than ever. Humans and agents are deploying more than 6 million times a day on Vercel, spinning up over 2 million Sandboxes and serving a trillion requests per month. our own compute infrastructure

The Persistence team sits within Vercel's Compute division. This team owns the deep infrastructure within Hive (our compute platform) focussing on storage and state for all our workloads (Builds, Sandboxes and Functions). This work is redefining compute with features like Fluid Compute, Persistent Sandboxes, and Custom Images.

As a Software Engineer on the Persistence team, you'll work on the infrastructure that runs 100s of instances across every region where our customers deploy code, rethinking low-level primitives and contributing to platform features that improve the experience for thousands of developers every day., * 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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