Who you are - Experience in building systems or backend, ideally in high-scale or high-throughput environments - Proficiency in C++ and/or Go in production environments - Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals — concurrency, sharding, fault tolerance, etc - Deep experience with performance optimization in low-latency or resource-constrained systems - A strong sense of user empathy and product intuition — you think beyond APIs and care about end-to-end experience - Proven ability to work collaboratively across engineering and product teams - Prior experience building telemetry, logging, metrics, or observability infrastructure - Experience with message queues, stream processing frameworks, or time-series databases ### What the job involves - We build and operate a petabyte scale ingest pipeline - It is primarily implemented in C++, with supporting components in Go, and is designed to operate at massive scale with extremely high reliability and performance - This pipeline is a distributed system responsible for stream processing, batching, compression, and transport of data into our storage engine, all while enforcing backpressure and supporting real-time analytics - Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-throughput components of Observe’s ingest pipeline - Optimize the performance of systems that operate under high concurrency and extreme data volume - Lead and contribute to system-level design decisions in a distributed environment - Collaborate cross-functionally with product backend and infrastructure teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities - Debug complex production issues involving large-scale telemetry data pipelines - Continuously improve operational reliability, observability, and debuggability of the ingest system ### Benefits - Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (Health/Dental/Vision/Disability/Life) - Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) - Mental Health Care - PTO, Bereavement Leave, Paid Holidays, Sick Days - Family Medical Leave, Fertility Assistance, Maternity & Paternity Leave, Military Leave - 401(k) - Equity Incentive Plan & Stock Options - Flexible Hours & Work From Home - And More!