Staff Software Engineer, Observability Platform
Core
Design foundations for high-cardinality telemetry data models, ingestion pipelines, and SDKs to make production legible for engineers and AI agents.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Observability Platform)
Builds
Event foundation, telemetry SDKs, golden paths for instrumentation, and query foundations for AI agents.
Domain
Fintech / Observability / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Software engineering (platforms), multi-language coding (Kotlin, Ruby), telemetry platform architecture, wide structured events, streaming/columnar backends, OpenTelemetry, SLIs/SLOs, AI tool proficiency, technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Fintech experience, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, Argo Rollouts, LLM/agent workload observability
Technologies
OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, Argo Rollouts, Claude Code
Responsibilities
Own architecture for wide-event data models and high-throughput ingestion pipelines; Design and ship telemetry libraries and SDKs; Define instrumentation conventions and OpenTelemetry standards; Build query foundations for AI agents to investigate incidents; Mentor senior engineers and lead cross-team technical initiatives
Seniority
Staff, deep technical builder and technical bar setter
