Staff Platform Observability Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Amsterdam is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Platform Observability to help design and scale our telemetry data pipelines. You will work on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting to ensure reliability across billions of events daily.

You will mentor teams, define strategies for logging, metrics, and tracing, and collaborate with SRE to reduce MTTR, improve performance, and maintain a highly available observability platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with highly distributed systems.
• Experience designing APIs and data pipelines for real-time data ingestion.
• Proven ability to improve software reliability including latency, availability, and incident management.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Java.
• Strong system design skills and ability to evaluate tradeoffs.
• Excellent stakeholder management and technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Logging, Metrics, Tracing & Alerting strategies.
• Solve scaling bottlenecks in telemetry data pipelines.
• Create tooling to accelerate root-cause analysis and reduce MTTR.
• Guide and mentor software engineering and SRE teams on monitoring best practices.
• Identify bottlenecks and single points of failure to improve reliability of the observability platform.
• Drive features from ideation to implementation and adoption.
• Collaborate on planning and refinement to ensure alignment and reduced complexity.
• Respond to alerts and provide on-call support for production issues.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Data pipelines

Software reliability

Go/Java

System design

Stakeholder management

Containerization

Terraform

Observability stack

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in Amsterdam is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Platform Observability to help design and scale our telemetry data pipelines. You will work on logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting to ensure reliability across billions of events daily.

You will mentor teams, define strategies for logging, metrics, and tracing, and collaborate with SRE to reduce MTTR, improve performance, and maintain a highly available observability platform.