CareerPlan

Senior Backend Software Engineer

USARemoteFull-time$154k–$185k2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10
Remote

Core

Design, build, operate, and maintain critical multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope) for a fully managed observability platform.

Role type

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Databases)

Builds

Hosted observability services (metrics, logs, traces, profiles) on Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Observability / Distributed Systems

Required skills

Go, Cloud development, Systems engineering, On-call/DevOps, Clean code, Observability concepts

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, Kafka, Microservices, Infrastructure as code

Technologies

Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, Prometheus

Responsibilities

Design and build modular solutions for processing, storing, and querying metrics at large volumes; Operate and maintain critical systems ensuring reliability and performance; Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations; Contribute to open-source projects and write design documents; Collaborate with team members in a fully remote setup

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC