Principal Software Developer 4

What you'll do

• Lead the design, development, and operation of cloud-scale observability platforms for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Architect and implement scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient telemetry collection, ingestion, processing, storage, and query systems.
• Develop scalable storage and indexing solutions for high-cardinality metrics and large-scale log analytics.
• Build and enhance query, search, and retrieval services to provide fast and reliable access to observability data.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the ingestion, storage, indexing, and query execution stack.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions for observability services operating in hyperscale cloud environments.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex distributed systems and large-scale production environments.
• Establish and monitor key service health, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency metrics for observability platforms.

What we're looking for

• B.S, M.S, or Ph.D in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in the industry.
• Proficiency in programming languages including Java, Go, C, C++, and Python.
• Experience with cloud scale products, multi-tenant services, and concurrent programming.
• Experience with open source technologies, cloud technologies, and the full product development lifecycle.
• Strong communication and analytical skills with the ability to adapt to fast-changing requirements.
• Experience designing and developing observability solutions for metrics, logs, and traces (preferred).
• Experience with Terraform and large-scale distributed systems performance, scalability, reliability, and recovery (preferred).