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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.

200k – 288kMenlo Park, CAData EngineeringHybrid5+ YOE
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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

Skills

GoC++Distributed SystemsAWSAzureOpenTelemetryApache IcebergStream ProcessingSystems ProgrammingData Pipelines

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