Observability Software Engineer: Scale & Visualize (Remote)

Vercel Inc.; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Learn and Grow programs

Flexible Time Off

WFH budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Observability team. You will design, implement, and maintain observability products for the platform, handling large-scale data ingestion and visualization.

The role offers a path to impact engineering tooling and developer experience across distributed systems. Based in NYC with optional in-office anchor days for SF/NY/London/Berlin candidates; fully remote otherwise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software engineering.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript/Go and modern frontend tools.
• Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed systems.
• Contributions to open source projects encouraged.
• Knowledge of frontend frameworks and performance profiling.

Responsibilities

• Handle large-scale data ingestion, storage, and processing from distributed systems.
• Develop visualization tools to provide insights into application behavior and performance.
• Integrate observability features with frontend tools, frameworks, and build systems to enhance developer experience.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, ensuring platform reliability through thorough testing.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and infrastructure teams to solve challenges and deliver top-tier solutions.
• Engage with the open-source community by contributing to projects and participating in discussions, supporting Vercel’s developer-focused mission.
• Collect feedback from developers and users to drive continuous innovation and improvement in the observability product area.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Go

Frontend tooling

ClickHouse

Tinybird

Data processing

Messaging systems

Open source

Frontend performance

Communication

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Observability team. You will design, implement, and maintain observability products for the platform, handling large-scale data ingestion and visualization.

The role offers a path to impact engineering tooling and developer experience across distributed systems. Based in NYC with optional in-office anchor days for SF/NY/London/Berlin candidates; fully remote otherwise.