Staff Software Engineer (Observability Platform)

Join Wealthsimple as a Staff Software Engineer on the Observability Platform team. Your mission will be to provide the best logging, metrics, and tracing experience for internal engineering teams. You will design the foundations, write critical code, and raise the engineering quality of those around you. Responsibilities include building the Event Foundation, crafting SDKs and Golden Paths, setting technical standards, enabling AI agents in production, and mentoring senior engineers. Enjoy a range of benefits including retirement savings matching, company equity, paid parental leave, and top-tier health benefits.

• Concevoir et mettre en œuvre l'architecture pour des modèles de données d'événements larges, un stockage à haute cardinalité et des pipelines d'ingestion et de requête à haut débit.
• Définir les conventions d'instrumentation, de nommage, de balisage, d'échantillonnage et les normes OpenTelemetry afin que les humains et les machines parlent un même langage.
• Piloter de nouvelles approches avec des équipes sélectionnées, mesurer l'impact et étendre ce qui fonctionne avant de s'engager largement.
• Strong Influencer: Exceptional communication skills to partner with cross-functional engineering teams and explain complex tradeoffs clearly
• Multi-Language Coder: Current, hands-on experience writing production code in multiple languages (e.g., Kotlin, Ruby)
• Proven Telemetry Experience: Prior success building telemetry platforms, ingestion pipelines, and developer-facing SDKs
• Event & Scale Mastery: Deep understanding of wide structured events, streaming/columnar backends, cardinality, sampling, and context propagation
• 8+ Years in Software Engineering: Strong software background (building platforms as software) rather than pure Ops/SysAdmin
• System Navigator: Ability to quickly map out, safely refactor, and impact complex, ambiguous codebases you didn't originally build
• Open Standards Expert: Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (or equivalent) and designing SLIs/SLOs
• AI-Fluent Developer: Daily proficiency with AI tools (like Claude Code) to move faster while maintaining high quality standards
• Experience in fintech or regulated environments
• Hands-on experience with ClickHouse or columnar stores
• Exposure to Kubernetes and progressive delivery tools (e.g., Argo Rollouts)
• Experience building observability solutions specifically for LLM and agent-based workloads