Senior Software Engineer - Observe Data Management
Builds and scales petabyte-scale data ingestion pipelines for observability platform using Go/C++ on AWS/Azure. Requires 5+ years in distributed systems, strong systems programming, and cloud experience.
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About the role
Responsibilities
Design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines handling petabyte-scale telemetry — logs, metrics, traces, and events
Develop performance-critical, distributed systems components in Go and/or C++ that operate reliably across AWS and Azure
Contribute to OpenTelemetry and drive Observe's open-source strategy, including external community engagement and upstream contributions
Architect solutions that maintain enterprise-grade availability and low latency under extreme data volumes
Collaborate with SRE, product, and platform teams to define data reliability standards and improve detection-to-resolution times for customers
Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues at the deepest layers of the stack
Help shape the technical roadmap for the Data Management team and mentor engineers across the organization
Requirements
5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems
Proficiency in Go and/or C++, with an ability to write high-performance, production-grade systems code
Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion or stream processing pipelines
A strong sense of user empathy and product intuition — you think beyond APIs and care about end-to-end data onboarding and management experience
Hands-on experience building and running services across major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure)
Strong fundamentals in systems programming: concurrency, memory management, networking, and I/O
A track record of solving hard infrastructure or platform engineering problems at scale
B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with OpenTelemetry SDKs, instrumentation, or ecosystem tooling
Prior open-source contributions or project maintainership
Familiarity with Apache Iceberg or other open table formats and data lakehouse architectures
Background in observability, monitoring, or SRE
Experience with multi-cloud data infrastructure or telemetry platforms at petabyte scale
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