Senior Software Engineer – Observability Platform

Requirements

• 5-8+ years of production-level experience with distributed applications at scale in public and/or private cloud
• Proven experience designing and contributing to the architecture of large-scale Observability platforms

Must Have

• Deep hands-on experience with internally hosted logging systems such as Splunk, ClickHouse, Loki, or Elastic; track record of improving environment performance, stability, and cost efficiency at scale
• Experience with OpenTelemetry — including collector configuration, pipelines, and instrumentation — as a core requirement given Adobe’s OTel-native observability strategy
• Ability to own and drive ingestion cost optimization end-to-end: analyzing pipeline data, designing guardrails, and engaging directly with customer engineering teams to identify and reduce unnecessary log volume
• Experience integrating AI workflows into large-scale deployments; ability to design and implement AI-assisted tooling that automates user interactions and surfaces actionable insights from high-volume log datasets
• Strong programming skills in Go and/or Python; experience building production-grade integrations and applications for large-scale Observability environments
• Experience developing, deploying, and operating distributed applications on cloud platforms; strong command of container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proven ability to design systems for fault tolerance, scalability, and stability, and to lead resolution of high-complexity performance and reliability issues
• Experience defining service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs); able to translate platform health into meaningful, measurable quality indicators
• Knowledge of public and/or private cloud deployments — AWS, Azure, Data Center
• Comfortable owning on-call coverage across a multi-tool observability stack, including leading incident response for high-severity issues

Good to Have

• Experience evaluating or prototyping alternative storage/processing backends (e.g., ClickHouse, Loki) as part of platform cost reduction and scalability strategy; ability to contribute to a phased migration plan from Splunk
• Experience with other Observability tooling such as Grafana, Cortex, and Tempo