Software Engineer, Platform

About this role

Vercel is seeking a Software Engineer for its Platform team to build internal observability systems that provide visibility into infrastructure, cost attribution, and deployment metrics. You'll design high-scale systems for logs, metrics, and traces while partnering with backend teams to instrument services and reduce reliance on third-party tools.

What you'll do

• Design and build observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) for internal infrastructure visibility
• Develop cost attribution and chargeback tooling to map spending to business units
• Instrument services with backend and platform teams for compliance and auditing
• Evaluate and integrate observability tools from CNCF ecosystem and existing vendors
• Scale observability infrastructure to handle Vercel's production traffic volume
• Ship pragmatic, high-leverage visibility solutions that improve system operations

What they're looking for

• TypeScript with backend/infrastructure experience
• Go, Rust, or Zig in production systems
• Distributed computing systems at scale
• Cloud infrastructure and object storage
• Observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, or Prometheus)
• CNCF projects and ecosystems
• Internal developer platform development
• Cost monitoring and financial engineering

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity
• Inclusive healthcare package
• Mentorship and professional development opportunities
• Flexible time off
• Equipment and work-from-home budget