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Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure - Observability Engineering Platforms
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Bengaluru, IND
Full-time
Senior · 12+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 6 days ago
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Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 12+ years of industry experience in software design and development, with strong problem-solving and system-design skills
- 12+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, C and/or other Functional languages
- Experience building and operating large-scale streaming and real-time processing systems, including stateful processing and data delivery guarantees
- Hands on experience developing large-scale observability platforms with a deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, Pub-Sub systems, logging /metrics / tracing platforms
- 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position
- 12+ years of software design and development experience, with 5+ years in a technical leadership position.
- 10+ years of experience with object-oriented design, coding, and testing patterns, and languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python.
- 8+ years building and optimizing large-scale distributed storage systems and client-server architectures.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale storage and OLAP systems, columnar, time-series, key-value, or log-structured stores such as ClickHouse, Apache Pinot, Apache Druid, BigQuery, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch, with a strong grasp of indexing, compaction, replication, and tiered retention.
- Depth in observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and events, including high-cardinality ingestion and low-latency query at scale.
- Experience building systems with AI and using AI-powered coding agents and assistants in everyday development to design, implement, test, and review software at a higher velocity and quality bar.
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand product priorities, think big-picture, and solve core problems efficiently.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts and drive technical strategy across teams and geographies.
- Maintainer or contributor of open source projects
- Technical Leadership
- Backend Systems Infrastructure
- Distributed Systems (Storage)
- Large-Scale Data Storage
- Software Design
- Cross-organizational Collaboration
Preferred Qualifications:
- 12+ years of software design and development experience, with 5+ years in a technical leadership position.
- 10+ years of experience with object-oriented design, coding, and testing patterns, and languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python.
- 8+ years building and optimizing large-scale distributed storage systems and client-server architectures.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale storage and OLAP systems, columnar, time-series, key-value, or log-structured stores such as ClickHouse, Apache Pinot, Apache Druid, BigQuery, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch, with a strong grasp of indexing, compaction, replication, and tiered retention.
- Depth in observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and events, including high-cardinality ingestion and low-latency query at scale.
- Experience building systems with AI and using AI-powered coding agents and assistants in everyday development to design, implement, test, and review software at a higher velocity and quality bar.
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand product priorities, think big-picture, and solve core problems efficiently.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts and drive technical strategy across teams and geographies.
- Maintainer or contributor of open source projects
- Suggested Skills:
- Technical Leadership
- Backend Systems Infrastructure
- Distributed Systems (Storage)
- Large-Scale Data Storage
- Software Design
- Cross-organizational Collaboration
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Responsibilities
- Architect, build, run, and scale real-time storage systems that ingest, process, index, and retain observability data at massive scale - spanning ingestion, stream processing, and long-term retention.
- Own the technical direction of the observability platform end to end - the collection, processing, and storage of metrics, logs, traces, and events that engineers across the company rely on - and evolve it so insight keeps pace with the growth of our systems.
- Scale distributed systems and make the hard architectural trade-offs - across processing models, data delivery guarantees, storage tiers, and the balance of cost, latency, and durability - while writing code and delivering with speed and quality.
- Serve as a role model and coach for engineers, with a strong bias for action, providing architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.\
- Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7. Produce high-quality infrastructure that is thoroughly tested, code reviewed & resilient.
- Partner with teams across the company to drive adoption of the platform(s), turning their instrumentation and diagnostic needs into measurable improvements in engineering productivity.
- Work closely with leadership and product/technology partners to define the roadmap and surface opportunities to improve observability.
- Navigate and resolve cross-team conflicts to align stakeholders and foster a cohesive, collaborative engineering culture.
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