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Member of Technical Staff - Observability

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13 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $440k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing.
  • Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes.
  • Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs for real-time insights into services.
  • Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability.
  • Partner with infrastructure and product teams to integrate observability into internal platforms.
  • Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end.

Requirements

  • Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or similar languages.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture.
  • Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.
  • Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse.
  • Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases.
  • Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments.

Benefits

  • Equity in the company.
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short & long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • Various discounts and perks.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaClickHouseGoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusRedisRustScala

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