Platform Observability Engineer (Remote)

vercel.com; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Mentorship events

WFH budget

Flexible time off

Job summary

Vercel is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Platform team to build observability systems, including metrics, logs, and traces, to improve reliability and engineering velocity. The role reports to the Platform Engineering Manager and offers onsite, hybrid, or remote work arrangements in a rapidly growing infrastructure environment.

You will design scalable observability solutions, collaborate with Backend and Platform teams, and engage in cost attribution tooling and vendor integrations.

Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript, with backend/infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on experience with Go, Rust, or Zig in production systems.
• Experience with distributed computing systems at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, including object storage.
• Familiarity with observability tooling and concepts (Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, or CNCF-based stacks such as Prometheus-compatible backends).

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-scale, internal observability systems (metrics, logs, and traces) that give engineering and the business visibility into Vercel's own infrastructure.
• Build cost attribution and chargeback tooling so spend can be accurately mapped to the parts of the business driving it, reducing reliance on third-party tools like Datadog.
• Partner with Backend and Platform teams to instrument services for compliance, auditing, and record-keeping requirements.
• Evaluate, integrate, and help operate observability infrastructure across our existing vendors and the CNCF ecosystem.
• Ship pragmatic, high-leverage visibility quickly that drives improvement in how build, deploy, and operate our systems.
• Work closely with Backend and Platform engineers to scale observability infrastructure to the throughput and cardinality of Vercel's full production traffic.

Skills

TypeScript

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Observability tooling

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

New Relic

Splunk

Prometheus

Job description

Vercel is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Platform team to build observability systems, including metrics, logs, and traces, to improve reliability and engineering velocity. The role reports to the Platform Engineering Manager and offers onsite, hybrid, or remote work arrangements in a rapidly growing infrastructure environment.

You will design scalable observability solutions, collaborate with Backend and Platform teams, and engage in cost attribution tooling and vendor integrations.