Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Core
Build and operate scalable observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) to provide engineering teams with actionable insights into system health and performance.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Observability)
Builds
Observability platforms, self-service tools, and paved paths for engineering teams
Domain
Financial technology, cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems
Required skills
Go/Java/Python/Kotlin, distributed systems design, observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, system design
Preferred skills
Internal developer platforms, high-volume telemetry ingestion, SRE practices, service meshes, microservice platforms
Technologies
Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Jaeger, Loki, Tempo, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure
Responsibilities
Build and operate highly scalable observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, events, alerting, and dashboards; Develop reliable software capabilities for instrumentation and troubleshooting; Establish and evolve observability standards including telemetry collection, SLOs, and SLIs; Improve incident detection and response through intelligent correlation and runbooks; Build self-service tools to adopt observability best practices; Partner with application, infrastructure, SRE, and security teams; Improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency of observability systems; Mentor engineers and contribute to operational excellence
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
