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Gusto

Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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about 3 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Base Salary

$200k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Shape the engineering organization standards around observability.
  • Own and evolve the observability platform, including distributed logging, metrics, and tracing infrastructure.
  • Build AI-native capabilities to automatically detect anomalies, diagnose failures, and accelerate root cause analysis.
  • Create powerful developer experiences through dashboards, notebooks, and interactive debugging tools.
  • Drive reliability automation with intelligent alerting, diagnostics, and incident response systems.
  • Partner across engineering teams to embed observability and reliability best practices.
  • Mentor engineers and influence reliability culture across the organization.

Requirements

  • Have 8+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing or operating observability platforms such as Datadog, Sentry, Splunk, or similar.
  • Have strong SWE coding proficiency in at least one of Ruby, Python, or TypeScript.
  • Strategic systems thinker who identifies high impact opportunities and builds scalable solutions.
  • Experience operating large scale distributed systems in production, especially logging platforms or time series databases.
  • Strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure such as Kubernetes and AWS.
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems end to end.
  • Strong communicator who can align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bonus if you have built or contributed to observability ecosystems such as OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonRubySplunkTerraformTypeScript

Categories

AI & MLBackendData ScienceDevOps