# Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability

**Company:** [Sigma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sigma)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $170k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, Azure, Distributed Systems, Observability, Metrics, Logging, Distributed Tracing, Alerting, Application Performance Management
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Build observability tools and platforms (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) using Go, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes. Requires 5+ years experience building high-quality software that other engineers use.

## Job Description

## What You Will Be Doing

- Build observability tools and platforms, including: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboarding, alerting, application performance management
- Build with modern tools and languages like Go, Open Telemetry and Kubernetes
- Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
- Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime
- Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable
- Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies. We expect successful candidates to be coding a majority of their time

## Qualifications We Need

- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software, especially software other engineers use
- You apply a product mindset to infrastructure systems and feel accomplished enabling others
- Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work
- Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity

## Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!)

- Experience building systems for data analytics
- Distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills
- Knowledge of cloud application security models
- Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Startup experience

## Compensation & Benefits

- The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240k annually
- Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience
- Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work
- This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package
- Equity
- Generous health benefits
- Flexible time off policy
- Paid bonding time for all new parents
- Traditional and Roth 401k
- Commuter and FSA benefits
- Lunch Program
- Dog friendly office

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