Your opportunity
Do you enjoy driving a vision across multiple teams? Do you get excited about complex distributed systems? Do you love data? We’re looking for an experienced Lead engineer to grow our global engineering team and help our customers build better data pipelines. How do you know if this is the right opportunity for you?

We seek a skilled Lead Engineer to help design and implement a groundbreaking data pipeline observability platform, enhancing the integrity and reliability of enterprise data flows. This role requires a deep understanding of distributed systems, monitoring techniques, solid understanding of ELT, EDW and data pipelines. 

You'll combine technical skills to build user-centric products that enables data teams to establish reliability and trust in their data.
What you'll do
  • Drive the design, development, and enhancement of core features and functionalities of our observability platform, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver scalable and reliable solutions
  • Act as a subject matter expert, guiding and mentoring a team of talented software engineers to achieve technical excellence and deliver high-quality code
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement robust, scalable, and efficient systems that meet the demands of our growing customer base
  • Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies, constantly researching and experimenting with innovative solutions to enhance our observability platform
  • Work closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, advocating for best practices and promoting a collaborative work environment
  • Be proactive in identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, applying optimizations, and maintaining the stability and availability of our platform
  • Encourage a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and innovation within the engineering team, sharing knowledge and promoting professional growth
This role requires
  • Bachelor’s degree, software development, engineering, or a related technical field
  • 8+ years of experience working as a software engineer working as a full-stack engineer with a strong computer science background and an aptitude for learning new languages quickly
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and developing large-scale full stack software systems, utilizing modern programming languages and frameworks
  • Proven ability to lead and mentor a team of software engineers, guiding them towards technical excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality code
  • Passion for exploring new technologies and finding creative solutions to complex problems, keeping up with industry trends and advancements in observability and related domains
  • Excellent collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly
  • Keep up to date with technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes among others
Bonus points if you have
  • Contribution to open source projects
  • Experience with instrumentation and language agents used to collect telemetry data
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry
  • Experience working on an Observability product, especially in the SaaS vendor space
Is a Remote Job?
Hybrid (Remote with required office time)

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