Golang Software Engineer, Infra & Compute (Remote)

Wwshemi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH budget

Mentorship programs

Anchor days in London (in-office)

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Software Engineer for the Persistence team in London to help run hundreds of instances and improve compute infrastructure. You will write Go daily, work with Nomad and Kubernetes, and contribute to low-level primitives across a scalable platform.

This role offers a remote-friendly setup with in-office anchor days in London, on-call responsibilities, equity, and mentorship opportunities as we scale our compute fabric.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with Golang strongly preferred.
• Deep experience with virtual machines, file systems and Linux — low-level know-how.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• 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 hard problems.
• Experience with low-level virtualization or sandbox execution environments.
• Product engineering experience and care about the developer-facing impact of infrastructure decisions.
• Experience with on-call operations for large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve fleets of clusters, running hundreds of instances across regions where customers deploy code.
• Write Golang on a daily basis and use Terraform to provision infrastructure; work with Nomad as scheduler.
• Rethink primitives of infrastructure, including virtual filesystems and Linux primitives.
• Own reliability and performance of the compute platform, including on-call coverage.
• Collaborate across teams to drive convergence of compute at Vercel.

Skills

Golang

Distributed systems

Linux

Virtualization

Nomad

Kubernetes

On-call

Communication

Equity

Remote work

Tools

Nomad

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Software Engineer for the Persistence team in London to help run hundreds of instances and improve compute infrastructure. You will write Go daily, work with Nomad and Kubernetes, and contribute to low-level primitives across a scalable platform.

This role offers a remote-friendly setup with in-office anchor days in London, on-call responsibilities, equity, and mentorship opportunities as we scale our compute fabric.