Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $217,000–$303,900 / yr
Posted: 28 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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Staff Software Engineer, Observability joins the Observability team to work at the intersection of infrastructure and software development. This role involves building and maintaining foundational platforms for infrastructure, focusing on improving availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency across monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems. The engineer will contribute to technical strategy, automate event-driven processes, manage on-call responsibilities, and submit upstream changes to open-source projects. Key technologies include Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Loki, and OTEL. Candidates should possess experience in distributed systems, Kubernetes development, and troubleshooting complex software environments at scale. The role addresses the technical challenges of managing massive data volumes, including performance engineering on distributed query systems and developing new ways for users to interpret telemetry data within a high-scale infrastructure environment.

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Skills

Prometheus Thanos Grafana Clickhouse Vector OTEL Kubernetes Distributed Systems Observability Logging Distributed Tracing Open Source event driven development

What you'll do

Develop software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of observability components.
Maintain and scale large-scale monitoring systems using Prometheus and Thanos.
Manage and optimize a high-volume logging platform built on Vector and Clickhouse.
Build new features and tools for distributed tracing using OTEL, Clickhouse, and Grafana.
Automate critical aspects of the event-driven development process.
Contribute upstream changes to open-source projects used by the infrastructure team.
Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot system and software issues.

What we're looking for

7+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, preferably in the context of infrastructure.
Experience developing on top of Kubernetes or similar distributed systems.
Strong troubleshooting capabilities surrounding both systems and software.
Experience engineering large systems, tracking work, and being a self-starter on projects.
Excellent communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team and company.
Familiarity with distributed systems development (preferred).
Familiarity with specific tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, Clickhouse, Otel, or Loki (preferred).
Kubernetes controller or operator development experience (preferred).

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