11 hours ago
Base Salary
$159k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the observability stack, tooling, and instrumentation standards across the codebase.
- Partner with SRE, platform, and engineering teams to embed observability practices throughout the project lifecycle.
- Design and implement service instrumentation and improve observability data quality.
- Evaluate and implement observability tools including Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Tempo, and Victoria Metrics.
- Collaborate with UI and UX designers on observability dashboards and visualizations.
- Develop and maintain OLAP databases, Kafka, ETL pipelines, and streaming platforms for observability data processing.
- Explore graph databases, ontologies, semantic layers, and knowledge bases for observability and knowledge-base capabilities.
- Provide technical guidance, participate in code reviews, and promote observability best practices.
- Lead and mentor observability experts when needed.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Tempo, and Victoria Metrics.
- Experience with OLAP databases, Kafka, ETL pipelines, and streaming platforms such as Spark and Flink.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing code.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud technologies.
- Understanding of distributed systems and AI infrastructure at scale.
- Proven experience implementing and optimizing observability stacks in large-scale projects.
- Familiarity with graph databases, ontologies, semantic layers, and knowledge bases is advantageous.
- Ability to lead adoption of observability practices and collaborate across engineering teams.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Experience leading and mentoring observability experts is desirable.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; PhD preferred.
Benefits
- Corporate Retirement Savings Plan.
- Health and dental benefits.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D coverage at 2x base pay.
- Optional or supplemental life and AD&D insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
- Paid holidays and vacation.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Tuition Assistance Plan.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program.
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About Infinera
Infinera builds optical networking systems and coherent optical engines, plus automation software and services, for telecom carriers, cloud and data center operators, cable/MSOs, and enterprises. The company designs and manufactures advanced optical semiconductors and pluggable modules for metro, long‑haul, and submarine transport networks. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Infinera is now part of Nokia after operating as a NASDAQ‑listed public company.