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Software Engineer, Build Compute

100% Remote
Full-time
Senior or above
UK, Europe
Posted on December 7, 2025New

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Join the CI/CD team powering over 1 million builds per day on Vercel. • Contribute to the compute platform that powers builds, sandboxes and functions. • Redefine compute with features like Active CPU pricing and Fluid Compute. • Build the underlying compute infrastructure that powers all builds at scale. • Transform the performance of builds and work with open source authors to understand framework requirements.

📋 Job Requirements

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

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems. • Product engineering experience. • Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning. • Background working with virtual filesystems and Linux primitives. • Experience managing fleets of clusters across multiple regions. • Familiarity with Next.js or other frontend frameworks.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Manage and improve fleet of clusters running hundreds of instances deployed in every region where customers deploy code. • Write Golang on a daily basis and use Terraform to provision infrastructure. • Rethink the primitives of infrastructure, working with virtual filesystems and Linux primitives. • Build and scale compute infrastructure for developer builds. • Collaborate with open source authors to understand framework requirements. • Contribute to performance improvements across the build platform.

About Vercel

😃 What Vercel offers

• Competitive compensation package, including equity. • Inclusive Healthcare Package. • Learn and Grow program with mentorship and events to build your network and skills. • Flexible Time Off. • Gear provided for your role and WFH budget to outfit your space as needed. • Work at the company behind v0, Next.js, and AI SDK. • Opportunity to work on infrastructure serving customers like Ramp, Supreme, PayPal, and Under Armour.

💖 What makes Vercel unique

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. Their mission is to enable the world to ship the best products by creating a place where everyone can do their best work.

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