CareerPlan

Senior AI and HPC Observability Engineer

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$152k2026-03-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and scale next-generation observability and telemetry platforms for high-volume metrics, logs, and traces across distributed AI/HPC environments.

Role type

Senior IC distributed systems engineer (observability)

Builds

High-throughput telemetry pipelines, backend services, and real-time/batch data infrastructure for AI superclusters

Domain

High-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Go, Java, OpenTelemetry, PromQL, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes, distributed systems design, time-series data modeling

Preferred skills

GPU workload monitoring, statistical anomaly detection, machine learning for insights

Technologies

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Design and scale observability platforms handling high-volume metrics, logs, and traces; Build high-performance backend services for telemetry ingestion, processing, and routing; Develop and extend OpenTelemetry collectors, processors, exporters, and instrumentation libraries; Build and optimize metrics pipelines using large-scale time-series storage systems; Design and operate real-time and batch telemetry pipelines using streaming and distributed data technologies; Improve platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through tuning, capacity planning, and system optimization

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC