3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Manage and improve a fleet of clusters running hundreds of instances across customer deployment regions
- Write Golang daily and use Terraform to provision infrastructure
- Use Nomad to schedule and manage workloads
- Rethink infrastructure primitives involving virtual filesystems, Linux primitives, and low-level virtualization
- Own the reliability and performance of the compute platform, including on-call coverage
- Collaborate across teams to drive convergence of Vercel’s compute systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with Golang strongly preferred
- Deep experience with virtual machines, filesystems, and Linux, including familiarity with tcpdump, strace, and iptables
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale with a focus on performance and reliability
- Experience with schedulers and orchestrators for containerized and non-containerized workloads, such as Nomad or Kubernetes
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Experience with low-level virtualization or sandbox execution environments is a bonus
- Product engineering experience and attention to developer-facing infrastructure impact are bonuses
- Experience with on-call operations for large-scale distributed systems is a bonus
Benefits
- London, UK-based role with in-office anchor days for employees within commuting distance; fully remote within the UK for those farther afield
- Inclusive healthcare package
- Mentorship and attendance at professional development events
- Flexible time off
- Company-provided equipment and work-from-home budget
About Vercel
Vercel builds a frontend cloud platform for developing, previewing, and deploying web applications, with strong support for React and Next.js. It sells usage-based and enterprise plans to developers and companies, and it stewards the open-source Next.js framework alongside tools like the AI SDK. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company focuses on speeding up modern web development and delivery.