Staff Software Engineer, Observability
- Location
- US
- Workplace
- Remote
- Employment
- Full Time
- Salary
- USD 177,185–364,795/yr
Posted 1mo ago
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Responsibilities
- Define and execute the observability roadmap, treating it as a product
- Understand engineering team needs and translate them into technical solutions
- Architect, build, and scale distributed observability infrastructure
- Build high-performance data pipelines and storage for telemetry analysis
- Establish observability standards and patterns across the organization
- Mentor engineers, lead architectural reviews, and influence technical decisions
- Partner with SRE, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and other teams
- Stay current with observability trends and technologies
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Product Mindset: Demonstrated ability to work backwards from customer needs
- Experience building internal platforms or tools with strong adoption
- 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Strong background in building data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with modern observability tools and practices
- Expert-level coding skills in languages like Java, Python, Go, or Scala
- Ability to write production-quality code
- Ability to see the big picture while managing complex technical details
- Experience building observability platforms from the ground up or significantly 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 applied to observability use cases
- Strong communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
Preferred
- Contributions to open-source observability projects
Skills
- Java
- Python
- Go
- Scala
- Kafka
- Flink
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
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