Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Senior software engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and operating large-scale observability and distributed systems. The role requires expert Kubernetes and query-development skills, proficiency in a high-level language such as Go, and cloud experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, deployment, operationalization, support, and maintenance.
- Design and build multi-component, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
- Formulate feature designs, incorporate stakeholder feedback, and drive consensus.
- Document design decisions and operational knowledge.
- Provide unit, integration, performance, and production-readiness testing.
- Investigate incidents methodically and identify root causes.
- Evaluate performance and reliability tradeoffs at scale.
- Participate in the team on-call rotation.
- Understand internal developer and external customer needs and apply that knowledge to product and feature design.
- Participate in design reviews and share principles for building reliable systems at scale.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to develop resilient, high-performance distributed systems in production.
- Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large-scale, geographically distributed observability systems or high-throughput data streaming and processing pipelines.
- Expert proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go.
- Expert-level Kubernetes skills.
- Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL.
- Hands-on experience with a cloud provider, preferably AWS or Google Cloud.
- Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
- Familiarity with monitoring, instrumentation, and infrastructure configuration best practices.
- User-first mindset, pragmatic decision-making, self-direction, and strong collaboration and communication skills.
Compensation
- Annual salary: $140,800–$231,000.
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, SQL, AWS, GCP, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Temporal, Distributed Systems, Data Streaming, Networking, Operating Systems
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