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Staff Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Execute core observability and telemetry architecture projects integrating proprietary Go infrastructure with open-source tools.
  • Design and optimize OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics workflows for high-volume storage-cluster metrics.
  • Write clean, performant Go code for the software-defined storage control plane and provide rigorous code reviews.
  • Participate in design, implementation, automated testing, usability reviews, and release activities within the Scrum lifecycle.
  • Develop documentation and standards that help engineering teams instrument their components correctly.
  • Participate in a global support and on-call rotation for the distributed storage platform.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of backend development experience.
  • Deep proficiency in Go for building high-performance, low-overhead system components.
  • Hands-on experience implementing and operating telemetry pipelines for clustered, distributed, or cloud-native solutions.
  • Strong knowledge of Prometheus operators, alerting rules, and scraping mechanics, plus the VictoriaMetrics stack.
  • Practical experience with OpenTelemetry, including custom collector configurations, instrumentation SDKs, and data processing.
  • Understanding of Linux networking, filesystems, and clustered storage applications under heavy I/O workloads.
  • Experience developing or extending Go components that ingest, process, and forward large streams of metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Experience optimizing the CPU and memory footprint of monitoring agents.
  • Experience writing robust unit and integration tests for telemetry components during live cluster upgrades.
  • Ability to independently own complex technical initiatives, collaborate across distributed teams, conduct code reviews, and produce clear documentation.

Benefits

  • Participation in a global team on-call rotation.
  • Work within a geographically distributed engineering team.

Tech Stack

GoLinuxPrometheus

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1,001-5,000 employees
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