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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Vercel Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $208,000.0 - $312,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Prometheus, Next.js, TypeScript, Datadog, Grafana, Backend, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS)
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-platform-vercel-10105689

## About the Role

* 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).

## Description

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Platform team. You will build the observability systems that give Vercel visibility into how we build, ship, and operate our systems. Core Platform owns Vercel's reliability, resilience, and engineering velocity. We're looking for engineers to create observability for everything from cost attribution to deployment velocity, alongside the logs, metrics, and traces necessary to optimize how Vercel builds its systems. This is a role with a wide breadth where we quickly develop critical systems and improve the entire Vercel code base. You will report to Eric Larson, Engineering Manager, Platform and will be located onsite, hybrid, or remote., * 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., * Have contributed to or worked closely with CNCF observability projects.
 * Built, scaled, and improved internal developer platforms.


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