Software Engineer, Compute
Core
Building and operating the deep infrastructure (storage and state) for Vercel's compute platform (Hive) that powers builds, sandboxes, and functions for developers.
Role type
Senior IC infrastructure software engineer (compute platform)
Builds
Compute infrastructure primitives (Fluid Compute, Persistent Sandboxes, Custom Images) and the fleet of clusters running customer workloads
Domain
Cloud infrastructure / Distributed systems / Low-level virtualization
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Golang, Terraform, Nomad, Linux primitives, virtual filesystems, distributed systems design, container orchestration
Preferred skills
Low-level virtualization, sandbox execution environments, on-call operations for large-scale systems
Technologies
Golang, Terraform, Nomad, Linux
Responsibilities
Manage and improve the fleet of clusters running customer code; Write Golang and use Terraform to provision infrastructure; Rethink infrastructure primitives (virtual filesystems, Linux primitives, low-level virtualization); Own reliability and performance of the compute platform including on-call coverage; Collaborate across teams to drive compute convergence