Senior Software Engineer - Observability

What you'll be doing

  • Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services in Logging, Metrics, Traces, and Alerting pipelines
  • Design and evolve APIs used by other engineers, collaborating to identify pain points and opportunities
  • Identify and address bottlenecks and single points of failure to improve observability platform reliability and user experience
  • Drive feature and product ideation, implementation, and adoption
  • Collaborate on planning and refinement with focus on engineering alignment, quality, and reducing complexity and dependencies
  • Respond to alerts, provide support, and troubleshoot production issues as part of duty responsibilities

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience with highly distributed systems
  • Expertise in designing and implementing APIs and data pipelines for high-throughput, real-time data ingestion
  • Experience improving software reliability across availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, SLOs, and incident management
  • Proficiency in Go and/or Java development and maintenance
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform)
  • Solid understanding of system design and tradeoffs
  • Proven track record leading and delivering projects and features end to end
  • Highly motivated for continuous learning and self-development

Nice to haves

  • Hands-on experience operating core telemetry data stores at scale (e.g., Elasticsearch, Opensearch, VictoriaLogs, Clickhouse, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana Tempo, Grafana LGTM stack, OpenTelemetry, Alertmanager)
  • Experience with highly available, fault tolerant, replicated data storage systems and large scale data processing
  • Infrastructure and platform experience
  • Contributions to open-source observability projects

Perks and benefits

  • Inclusive and diverse work environment encouraging applicants from all backgrounds
  • Office-first culture valuing in-person collaboration based in Amsterdam
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