Software Engineer (Compute)

Location: London, UK. In-office anchor days are required for candidates within commuting distance of the London office; candidates elsewhere in the UK may work fully remotely.

Company

Vercel builds agentic infrastructure and compute products that help developers and software agents ship and run applications.

What you will do

• Manage and improve compute clusters running hundreds of instances across customer deployment regions.
• Write Golang daily and use Terraform to provision infrastructure, with Nomad as the workload scheduler.
• Develop low-level infrastructure primitives involving virtual filesystems, Linux, and virtualization.
• Own compute platform reliability and performance, including on-call coverage.
• Collaborate across teams to converge Vercel's compute infrastructure.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience; Golang is strongly preferred.
• Deep experience with virtual machines, file systems, and Linux, including tools such as tcpdump, strace, and iptables.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale with a focus on 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, with enthusiasm for investigating non-obvious technical problems.

Nice to have

• Experience with low-level virtualization or sandbox execution environments.
• Product engineering experience and interest in developer-facing infrastructure impact.
• On-call experience for large-scale distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including equity.
• Inclusive healthcare package and flexible time off.
• Mentorship and support for attending professional events.
• Company-provided equipment and a work-from-home budget.