Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and evolution of major platform components, making foundational design decisions for the observability platform.
• Build scalable, reliable, and performant features that provide visibility into customer data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to define and deliver high-impact initiatives.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code following best practices in testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Set and champion engineering standards for code quality, testing, design, and operational excellence.
• Improve and evolve the observability platform’s tooling, infrastructure, and processes.
• Lead and coordinate responses to complex production incidents, guiding rapid resolution and long-term improvements.
• Identify technical opportunities, risks, and gaps, and drive initiatives to address them.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and feedback.

Requirements

• Strong technical experience building complex distributed systems.
• Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, SQL/OLAP databases, Kafka, and stream processing.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and scaling production infrastructure.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Focus on delivering customer value through thoughtful technical solutions.
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments, break down open-ended problems, and drive them to completion.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building or scaling data observability products.
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestrators.
• Background in observability, monitoring, or infrastructure at scale, such as Datadog or Honeycomb.
• Experience working directly with product teams.

Compensation and Benefits

• Estimated salary range: $275,000–$377,000, based on leveling and geography.
• Equity component and comprehensive benefits package.