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Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USA
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Base Salary

$177k - $365k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the observability roadmap as a product.
  • Architect, build, and scale distributed observability infrastructure.
  • Build high-performance data pipelines for telemetry analysis.
  • Establish observability standards and patterns across the organization.
  • Mentor engineers and lead architectural reviews.
  • Collaborate with SRE, Infrastructure, and Product Engineering teams.
  • Stay current with observability trends and technologies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated product mindset with experience building internal platforms.
  • 7+ years of experience in designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong background in building data pipelines and working with time-series databases.
  • Hands-on experience with modern observability tools and practices.
  • Expert-level coding skills in languages like Java, Python, Go, or Scala.
  • Ability to manage complex technical details while seeing the big picture.
  • Experience building observability platforms or scaling existing solutions.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies.
  • Track record of driving adoption of internal platforms.
  • Experience with machine learning or anomaly detection in observability.
  • Strong communication skills to influence stakeholders.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesPrometheusPythonScala

Categories

AI & MLData Engineering