Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of large-scale telemetry pipelines, including high-volume ingestion, stream processing, and storage
• Design scalable, multi-tenant services addressing hot shards, high-cardinality data, and backpressure
• Improve pipeline reliability and data freshness while reducing on-call burden through system design
• Set technical direction, drive design reviews, and identify critical architectural decisions
• Collaborate with product, compute, networking, and platform teams
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design work, code reviews, and incident response

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience with ownership of production distributed systems
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems (sharding, replication, consistency, load balancing)
• Experience with large-scale data infrastructure like time-series databases, log aggregation, or streaming pipelines
• Proficiency in Go or another modern compiled language
• Comfort with Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, or Vector
• Proven track record of technical leadership and cross-functional influence

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages (RSUs)
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with up to 4% company match
• Paid parental leave and volunteer time off
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement
• Daily meals allowance and cell phone stipend
• Commuter benefits