Backend Software Engineer, Observe

• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) and solid computer science fundamentals
• 2+ years of backend development experience
• Backend generalist experience: comfortable working across backend and infrastructure stacks, even unfamiliar ones
• Experience using Observability tools
• Experience driving projects: executing and navigating ambiguities

Desirable

• Observe is redefining how companies manage operational telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces, etc.) generated by modern distributed applications
• Traditional logging, monitoring, and APM tools are often too complex, leading to excessive costs and lengthy incident resolution times
• Many solutions fall short because the necessary data is either too costly to retain or too cumbersome to access
• Observe changes the game, offering a single observability platform for all telemetry data, built on a cloud-native data warehouse that delivers unmatched scale and cost efficiency
• No filtering, no sampling—just comprehensive, uncompromised observability
• The APM (application performance monitoring) team is responsible for building backend features for guided user flows
• We are responsible for a large area of product domains, including: APM (service explorer, trace explorer), metric explorer, alerting, infrastructure monitoring (Kubernetes explorer)
• The APM team deliverables are always motivated by direct product goals, which often include technical work on multiple backend stacks across the company
• We produce fast-paced MVPs, as well as go deep into the computation platform to do sophisticated benchmarks and optimizations
• You'll play a pivotal role in understanding the use cases and user journeys, and make them happen efficiently and performantly
• Design, implementation, and project execution for product backends
• Own on various products domains, preferably become a long term owner and domain expert
• Collaborate closely with product and frontend teams to shape product behavior, supporting customers with advanced use cases
• Collaborate closely with other backend teams, to improve our computation platform (API backend, query language and compiler, query optimization, streaming data pipeline, etc.)
• Product robust and practical tests and monitoring