Senior Software Engineer, Aiven
Observability
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AI-ready open source data platform
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AI-ready open source data platform
201-500 employees
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+ Participate in Aiven’s equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help customers create outcomes and accelerate building applications.
Role
Who you are
- You bring a passion not only for coding but actively sharing your knowledge and experience with your peers as well. You should also bring strong capabilities in the following areas:
- Product Thinking: A strong product sense that enables you to design innovative, cloud-native products with our customers in mind
- Technical Leadership: Act as a multiplier by providing technical guidance to senior engineers, setting technical direction, and actively contributing expertise
- Communication: Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to effectively share complex design concepts within engineering teams as well as to less technical audiences
- Observability: Extensive experience with observability concepts on a big scale
- Tooling: A good grasp of monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Metrics & Standards: You have an understanding of SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs
- Database Concepts: Strong knowledge of database fundamentals, including OLAP vs. OLTP, persistence, replication, and clustering
- ClickHouse: Experience with ClickHouse specifically regarding logs, metrics, and OpenTelemetry is highly desirable
- Distributed Systems: Experience in building and designing distributed systems in a cloud environment
- SQL Proficiency: The ability to work with SQL to interact with our platform's master database
- Release & Quality: Deep understanding of release management and testing best practices to own the delivery pipeline
- Problem-Solving: A genuine interest in solving complex technical challenges with customer-focused solution
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our newly formed Observability team
- This is a critical role focused on providing observability solutions for all customers. You will work closely with your engineering team and product manager to achieve operational excellence, maximize customer satisfaction, and deliver key product differentiation features, customer satisfaction, and product differentiation
- Operational Excellence: Ensure our existing observability offering is up and running all the time
- Product Differentiation: Ideate and develop innovative new features that attract our target customer segment, drive product engagement, and ultimately fuel growth
- Customer Satisfaction: Support our existing external customer base by resolving escalated support issues and collaborating with them to understand and solve their needs
- Technical Implementation: Guide the team in the hands-on implementation of key platform features, ensuring maintainability and performance
- Team Enablement: Empower your team to act as "product custodians" by consistently addressing foundational and production issues
- Collaboration: Practise effective communication and collaboration both within the team and across the wider organization and act as a role model in transparency for your peers
Our take
The cloud infrastructure sector is booming as more businesses rely on open-source technologies to run their operations at scale. In this fast-growing space, Finnish company Aiven has carved out a strong reputation since founding in 2016. The company provides fully managed cloud services, helping organizations to use open-source tools without the hassle of managing the technical details.
The company works with a wide range of clients around the world, offering services that cover everything from databases to messaging systems and analytics tools. So, Aiven is helping businesses streamline their cloud operations and focus on growth instead of infrastructure headaches. I doing so, it makes complex technology accessible, reliable and scalable for teams of all sizes.
In 2025, Aiven announced it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, a signal of its growing impact in the cloud space. To support its next phase of growth, the company is opening a hub in Cork, Ireland, creating a bunch of new jobs over three years. This expansion puts AIven in a prime position to scale internationally and bring its managed open-source solutions to more companies.
Kirsty
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$210m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $420m
Company benefits
- Stocks: Stock options for permanent employees
- Learning & growth: Get ahead with an individual learning budget, access to a web learning platform, coaching, and the ever-growing Aiven library
- Work/life balance: Flexible, regular working hours, and hybrid work friendly
- Health care: Private health and dental care
- Work equipment: The tools you need to do your job
- Cool, collaborative work spaces: with free drinks, treats and fruit
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki
Leadership
Oskari Saarenmaa
(Co-Founder & CEO)Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2002 to 2011. CEO and Software Architect of Ohmu from 2010 to 2016.
Heikki Nousiainen
(Co-Founder)Experience as Information Security Specialist for TietoEnator. Lead Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2008 to 2015.
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