Software Engineer, Build Compute

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:

CI/CD is the beating heart of Vercel. Developers & agents alike create over 1 million builds per day on Vercel.

Every build on Vercel is powered by our own compute Infrastructure. As an engineer on the CI/CD team you’ll be responsible to contributing to our compute platform that powers builds, sandboxes and functions. This work is redefining compute with features live Active CPU pricing & Fluid Compute.

As a Software Engineer on the CI/CD team, you’re responsible for building the underlying compute infrastructure that powers all of these builds at scale. You’ll be responsible for transforming the performance of builds, working with open source authors to understand the requirements of their frameworks.

If you’re based within a pre-determined commuting distance of one of our offices (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 and improve our fleet of clusters, running 100’s of instances, deployed in every region where our customers deploy code.
• You’ll be writing golang on a daily basis and using terraform to provision our infrastructure.
• Rethinking the primitives of our infrastructure, working with virtual filesystems and linux primitives.

About You:

• 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency at least one of JavaScript/TypeScript/Golang, Golang preferred.
• You have extended experience with Containers, Virtual Machines, Linux.
• Practical experience building, running and debugging distributed systems.
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills. An enthusiasm for digging into problems with unknown solutions.

Bonus If You:

• Built and maintained CI/CD systems
• Have Product engineering experience

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Inclusive Healthcare Package.
• Learn and Grow – we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
• Flexible Time Off.
• We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

Vercel is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Vercel encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don’t necessarily check every box on the job description.