Senior Backend Engineer - Observability for Store Rollouts

Tesco Technology; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 290,160 - 368,280; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

MacBook

Learning opportunities

Additional paid leave

Referral Bonus

Job summary

Tesco Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Kraków to design, build, and operate observability capabilities for deployment workflows and store health across thousands of retail locations. You will work with deployment, platform, and operations teams to ensure proactive issue detection and data-driven operations.

The role emphasizes metrics, logging, tracing, SLIs/SLOs, and scalable telemetry across cloud and edge components, with hands-on CI/CD and testing.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong Java development skills (Spring Framework).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
• Basic system design skillset.
• Deep understanding of metrics, logs, traces, alerting strategies, and performance monitoring.
• Experience with modern observability frameworks and standards such as OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of event-driven systems and event sourcing patterns.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement metrics, logging, tracing, and telemetry solutions across cloud and edge components.
• Build monitoring pipelines, dashboards, and alerting frameworks that provide actionable insights into deployment health, device status, and store operations.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and reliability metrics for mission-critical deployment services.
• Create operational analytics for deployment performance, software rollout progress, failure detection, and capacity planning.
• Integrate telemetry from cloud services, edge devices, deployment agents, and infrastructure components into centralized monitoring platforms.
• Build automated detection and root-cause analysis capabilities using modern observability practices and tooling.
• Develop self-service dashboards and reporting capabilities for engineering, support, and operations teams.
• Drive observability standards, instrumentation practices, and monitoring strategies across the Retail Platform ecosystem.

Skills

Java (Spring)

Observability

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Event-driven systems

System design

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Victoria Metrics

New Relic

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Tesco Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Kraków to design, build, and operate observability capabilities for deployment workflows and store health across thousands of retail locations. You will work with deployment, platform, and operations teams to ensure proactive issue detection and data-driven operations.

The role emphasizes metrics, logging, tracing, SLIs/SLOs, and scalable telemetry across cloud and edge components, with hands-on CI/CD and testing.