Software Engineer, Platform

Vercel
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 208,000 - 312,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: []

Build high-scale internal observability systems—metrics, logs, and traces—to give engineering and the business visibility into reliability, deployment velocity, and build/ship operations. Create cost attribution and chargeback tooling, integrate observability infrastructure across vendors and CNCF ecosystems, and instrument services for compliance and record-keeping. Partner with backend and platform teams to scale observability to Vercel’s production traffic while improving the broader codebase.

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Software Engineer, Platform

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Job Summary

Build high-scale internal observability systems—metrics, logs, and traces—to give engineering and the business visibility into reliability, deployment velocity, and build/ship operations. Create cost attribution and chargeback tooling, integrate observability infrastructure across vendors and CNCF ecosystems, and instrument services for compliance and record-keeping. Partner with backend and platform teams to scale observability to Vercel’s production traffic while improving the broader codebase.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build high-scale internal observability systems (metrics, logs, and traces) for infrastructure visibility.
  • •Develop cost attribution and chargeback tooling to map spend to business drivers and reduce reliance on third-party tools.
  • •Partner with backend and platform teams to instrument services for compliance, auditing, and record-keeping.
  • •Evaluate, integrate, and help operate observability infrastructure across vendors and CNCF ecosystem tooling.
  • •Ship high-leverage visibility improvements and scale observability infrastructure to production throughput and cardinality.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 208,000 - 312,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •Proficient in TypeScript with backend/infrastructure experience.
  • •Hands-on production experience with Go, Rust, or Zig.
  • •Experience with distributed computing systems at scale.
  • •Experience with cloud infrastructure, including object storage.
  • •Familiarity with observability concepts and tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus-compatible stacks).
Experience:Cloud infrastructureObservabilityDistributed systems
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptGoRustZigDatadogGrafanaNew RelicSplunkPrometheusCNCFObject storageLogsMetricsTraces

Company Brief

Vercel
Provides a frontend cloud platform and developer tools (including Next.js and v0) that simplify building, deploying, and scaling web and AI-native applications for developers and enterprises.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series F
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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