Vercel

Tech / AI / Software

SoftwareEngineer,Compute

$180–280k san francisco, california, united states Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer, Compute at Vercel. Skills: Golang, Terraform, Nomad, distributed systems, system design. Manage our fleet of clusters, running 100’s of instances, deployed in every region where our customers deploy and run their code. writing Golang on a daily basis”

Industry & Context.

Tech / AI / Software
Problems you'll solve

design systems that improve performance or increase reliability

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of software engineering experience, extended experience with Containers, extended experience with Virtual Machines, extended experience with Linux, digging deep to know how these things work under the hood (tcpdump, strace and iptables are your best friends), built and operated distributed systems at scale, experience with schedulers and orchestrators for managing containers and non-containerized applications

Nice to Have

Golang preferred

What You'll Do.

Manage our fleet of clusters

running 100’s of instances

deployed in every region where our customers deploy and run their code

writing Golang on a daily basis

provisioning the needed infra using terraform

understanding the ins and outs of Nomad

building a platform that provides all the primitives to run all untrusted code from our customers

implementing new platform features

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Working collaboratively with cross-team and cross-functional stakeholders

Full Job Description

About Vercel: Vercel gives developers the tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. As the team behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK, Vercel helps customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour build for the AI-native web. Our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products. That starts with creating a place where everyone can do their best work. Whether you're building on our platform, supporting our customers, or shaping our story: You can just ship things. About the Role: This team is building a platform that powers all of compute at Vercel. That means we provide all the primitives to run builds, serverless functions, middleware, edge functions, secure compute and now sandboxes too. If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (SF, NY, London, or Berlin), the role includes in-office anchor days on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. If you're located beyond that distance, the role is fully remote. For location-specific details, please connect with our recruiting team. What You Will Do: Manage our fleet of clusters, running 100’s of instances, deployed in every region where our customers deploy and run their code. You will be writing Golang on a daily basis, while terraform will be your go-to tool when it comes to provisioning the needed infra. You will get to know the ins and outs of Nomad as it’s our current choice for scheduling the workloads. The platform you will be building provides all the primitives to run all untrusted code from our customers: even a 1% performance improvement has massive repercussions across the board. Working collaboratively with cross-team and cross-functional stakeholders, you will participate in the conception and implementation of new platform features. Other examples of the work you will be carrying out: Fluid Compute Active CPU Pricing About You: You have 5+ years of software engineering experience, Golang preferred. You have extended experie

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