Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Intuit

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Diego, CAMountain View, CA
Salary
$188,500–$255,000 / yr
Posted
97 days ago
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Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

Intuit currently has 255 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Observability

The Staff Software Engineer - Observability will join the Core PDX Observability Engineering team to design and deliver a next-generation logging and observability platform. This role involves architecting and evolving the One Intuit Logging system, focusing on high-scale, mission-critical pipelines across on-premise and public cloud deployments. Key responsibilities include building components like the Front End Logging Service, S3 Log Writer, and Kinesis/CloudWatch Log Writer while driving cost optimization and automation rewrites. The candidate will utilize Go, Java, and Python to manage Kubernetes, Fluent Bit, and MCP Server capabilities. The work addresses the technical challenge of managing multi-TB/PB daily scale data ingestion, routing, and storage while ensuring high availability and signal fidelity for thousands of developers across AWS and GCP environments.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and evolve the end-to-end One Intuit Logging system from log generation through ingestion and storage.
  • Drive pipeline and cost optimization initiatives to reduce infrastructure spend while maintaining signal fidelity.
  • Lead the design and development of core components including log routers, writers, and processors.
  • Modernize legacy tooling by leading the Automation Revamp/Rewrite initiative into scalable services.
  • Design and maintain edge collection agents and integrate Kubernetes metadata enrichment into the pipeline.
  • Leverage MCP Server capabilities to enable AI-assisted authoring and operational tooling for the platform.
  • Build observability for the platform itself using Grafana dashboards, metrics, and alerting.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to set engineering standards and design direction for the team.

What we're looking for

  • 8-10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, logging/data pipelines, or observability platforms.
  • Deep expertise in building and operating high-throughput data pipelines at multi-TB/PB daily scale.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and sidecar/daemonset architectures.
  • Proficiency with public cloud platforms including AWS (S3, Kinesis, CloudWatch, EC2) and GCP.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or similar languages used in infrastructure/platform engineering.
  • Experience with Splunk or equivalent log management/observability platforms at scale.

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