Senior Software Engineer (Observe Data Management)

Join Observe, a leading observability platform, as a Senior Software Engineer on the Observe Data Management team. In this role, you will design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines, develop performance-critical distributed systems components, and contribute to OpenTelemetry. You will collaborate with various teams to define data reliability standards and improve detection-to-resolution times for customers. Additionally, you will help shape the technical roadmap for the Data Management team and mentor engineers across the organization.

• Design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines handling petabyte-scale telemetry.
• Develop performance-critical, distributed systems components in Go and/or C++ that operate reliably across AWS and Azure.
• Contribute to OpenTelemetry and drive Observe's open-source strategy, including external community engagement and upstream contributions.
• Proficiency in Go and/or C++, with an ability to write high-performance, production-grade systems code
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion or stream processing pipelines
• Hands-on experience building and running services across major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure)
• A track record of solving hard infrastructure or platform engineering problems at scale
• Strong fundamentals in systems programming: concurrency, memory management, networking, and I/O
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems
• A strong sense of user empathy and product intuition — you think beyond APIs and care about end-to-end data onboarding and management experience
• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Prior open-source contributions or project maintainership
• Familiarity with Apache Iceberg or other open table formats and data lakehouse architectures
• Background in observability, monitoring, or SRE
• Experience with multi-cloud data infrastructure or telemetry platforms at petabyte scale
• Experience with OpenTelemetry SDKs, instrumentation, or ecosystem tooling