Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations
Core
Setting technical direction for the Observability platform, leading distributed systems design for metrics, logs, and traces to support AI agents and engineers.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Tech Foundations)
Builds
Real-time telemetry platform (metrics, logs, traces) for AI agents and engineers
Domain
Cloud-native observability, distributed systems, AI infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, Go or Java/Kotlin, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, AWS, Istio, Envoy, System design, Cost optimization, Anomaly detection
Preferred skills
Open source contributions, Time series storage internals, High-cardinality data handling, SLO-based alerting, AI agent tooling (MCP servers), ClickHouse
Responsibilities
Lead design and delivery of distributed systems handling tens of millions of events per second, Write maintainable code and contribute to open source, Align roadmaps across infrastructure and product teams, Explain tradeoffs to engineering leadership, Mentor engineers on design and operational readiness, Help teams instrument services for debugging
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
