Software Engineer, Compute
Core
Build and operate the deep compute infrastructure (storage and state) for Vercel's Hive platform, managing fleets of clusters and instances across global regions.
Role type
Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer (Compute)
Builds
Compute platform features including Fluid Compute, Persistent Sandboxes, and Custom Images for developers
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems / Low-level Virtualization
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Golang, Linux primitives, distributed systems design, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, virtualization, performance optimization
Preferred skills
low-level virtualization, sandbox execution environments, product engineering impact, on-call operations for large-scale systems
Technologies
Golang, Terraform, Nomad, Kubernetes, tcpdump, strace, iptables
Responsibilities
Manage and improve fleet of clusters running hundreds of instances; write Golang and use Terraform to provision infrastructure; rethink infrastructure primitives like virtual filesystems; own reliability and performance including on-call coverage; collaborate to drive compute convergence
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
