Base Salary
$189k - $274k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and evolve the One Intuit Logging system from edge log generation through ingestion, routing, and storage.
- Lead pipeline and infrastructure cost-optimization initiatives while preserving log signal fidelity.
- Design and develop core logging components including FELS, S3 Log Writer, Kinesis/CloudWatch Log Writer, Log Router, Asterias Splunk, GCP Logs Processor, Index Controller, and Asset-to-Log DB.
- Modernize legacy tooling through the Automation Revamp/Rewrite initiative.
- Design and maintain Fluent Bit collection agents, the OIL sidecar, and the EC2 Logger Agent, including Kubernetes metadata enrichment.
- Build and extend the FELS Onboarding Plugin for developer onboarding.
- Use MCP Server capabilities for AI-assisted authoring, automation, and operational tooling.
- Create Grafana dashboards, metrics, and alerting for pipeline health, throughput, and cost.
- Support governance initiatives such as SplunkCraft and provide technical leadership, mentorship, and design direction.
- Collaborate with SRE, platform, and product engineering teams.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems, logging/data pipelines, or observability platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field; BE, BTech, MS, or MTech are listed as qualifying degrees.
- Deep experience building and operating high-throughput log or event ingestion, streaming, and routing pipelines at multi-terabyte/petabyte daily scale.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, sidecars, and DaemonSets such as Fluent Bit.
- Proficiency with AWS and GCP public-cloud platforms and services.
- Experience with Splunk or an equivalent log-management or observability platform at scale.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or similar infrastructure/platform languages.
- Experience leading architecture and design for mission-critical, highly available systems.
- Experience driving large-scale infrastructure cost optimization.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-team influence without direct reporting authority.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical tradeoffs to engineering and leadership audiences.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with pay-for-performance rewards.
- May be eligible for cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits under applicable plans and programs.
- Base pay is listed as $188,500–$255,000 for Southern California and $202,500–$274,000 for Mountain View, California.
Tech Stack
About Intuit
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