Software Development Manager, Observability Platform
Core
Lead the founding Software Development Manager role for an internal observability platform serving engineers and AI agents, focusing on logging, metrics, and tracing.
Role type
Senior IC Engineering Manager (Platform)
Builds
Internal observability platform (logging, metrics, tracing), shared SDKs, libraries, and instrumentation defaults using OpenTelemetry.
Domain
Fintech / Observability / AI-Native Tooling
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management (3+ years), Software development (7+ years), In-house observability platform design, OpenTelemetry, SLI/SLO design, SDK/library development, Strategic vision setting, Hands-on architecture
Preferred skills
Fintech/regulated industry background, Kubernetes, Argo Rollouts, ClickHouse, Observability for LLM/AI-agent workloads
Technologies
OpenTelemetry, Datadog, MCP, LLMs, Claude Code
Responsibilities
Hire and lead an engineering team, Define multi-year observability roadmap, Build wide-event data models and golden paths, Drive reliability goals and SLOs, Prototype AI-native production tooling, Make vendor vs. build decisions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC