Join Vercel as a Software Engineer on the Persistence team to enhance compute infrastructure for developers worldwide.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
What you'll build
- Manage and improve fleet of clusters
- Write Golang for infrastructure provisioning
- Rethink infrastructure primitives
- Own reliability and performance of compute platform
- Collaborate across teams
Must have
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Deep experience with virtual machines and file systems
- Experience building and operating distributed systems
- Experience with schedulers and orchestrators
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Nice to have
- Worked on low-level virtualisation or sandbox execution environments
- Product engineering experience
- Experience with on-call operations for large-scale distributed systems
Practical constraints
- On-call coverage required
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer on the Persistence team at Vercel focuses on enhancing the compute infrastructure that supports numerous instances across various regions, ensuring reliability and performance. Daily tasks involve writing Golang and utilizing Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, alongside rethinking low-level components like virtual filesystems and Linux primitives. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with over five years of experience in distributed systems and a strong grasp of virtual machines and file systems. The team operates within a collaborative environment, driving improvements that significantly impact the developer experience.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Vercel's careers page November 4, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Vercel: Hybrid - London.
- Terraform appears in 8.8% of 510 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Linux appears in 4.9% of 510 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, Compute role remote?
- It's hybrid — Vercel expects some on-site time in Hybrid - San Francisco.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, Compute role.
- Where is the role based?
- Vercel is hiring for this position in Hybrid - San Francisco.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Golang, Linux, Nomad, Terraform.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Vercel targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, Compute role at Vercel.
From the original posting
About Vercel:
About the role
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. Every single one is powered by 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.
This role is based in London, UK. If you're within commuting distance of our London office, the role includes in-office anchor days. If you're located further afield within the UK, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team.
What you'll do
- 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.
What you need
- 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.
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