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Principal Software Engineer

USA🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect and own the end-to-end telemetry data platform, including storage, modeling, querying, and observability cost architecture.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Telemetry & Observability Platform)

Builds

High-volume telemetry collection, routing, storage, and analytics platforms for reliability, incidents, and cost.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, Observability, Data Engineering, AI/ML Telemetry

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, OpenTelemetry, Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Spark, AWS, Kubernetes, Go/Java/Python/Scala, Terraform, GitOps

Preferred skills

LLM/agentic-system instrumentation, FinOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Snowflake, Backstage

Technologies

FluentBit, Kinesis, Kafka, Datadog, MLflow, Unity Catalog, EKS, ECS Fargate, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, Flux, ArgoCD

Responsibilities

Architect end-to-end telemetry data platform; Lead OpenTelemetry instrumentation migration; Build telemetry analytics for reliability and costs; Influence cross-organizational architecture and roadmaps; Lead design reviews and mentor engineers; Participate in production support and root-cause analysis.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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