Platform Observability Engineer

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Northern, New York (KY, NY)

On-site

USD 208,000 - 312,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform team to design and build high-scale observability systems (metrics, logs, and traces) that give visibility into how we build, ship, and operate our services.

This role focuses on cost attribution, deployment velocity, and integration with CNCF observability tools while partnering with Backend and Platform engineers to ensure reliability and velocity across production traffic.

Qualifications

  • Experience designing and building observability systems for large-scale services.
  • Familiarity with cost attribution or cloud spend tooling.
  • Collaborative experience with Backend and Platform teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build high-scale observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) for Vercel’s infrastructure.
  • Implement cost attribution and chargeback tooling to map spend to business units.
  • Instrument services for compliance, auditing, and operational requirements.
  • Evaluate and operate observability infrastructure across vendors and CNCF ecosystem.
  • Deliver pragmatic visibility improvements to accelerate build, deploy, and operate cycles.
  • Scale observability to handle production traffic and evolving workloads.

Skills

Observability design
Cost attribution tooling
Backend collaboration

Job description

Vercel in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform team to design and build high-scale observability systems (metrics, logs, and traces) that give visibility into how we build, ship, and operate our services.

This role focuses on cost attribution, deployment velocity, and integration with CNCF observability tools while partnering with Backend and Platform engineers to ensure reliability and velocity across production traffic.

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