Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Store Rollout & Observability)

Tesco; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate observability capabilities for large-scale deployment across thousands of retail locations. You will work with cloud-native and edge-based components to ensure proactive issue detection and data-driven operational excellence.

Responsibilities include building telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting, defining SLIs/SLOs, and enabling self-service reporting for engineering and operations teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Java development skills with Spring Framework.
• Deep knowledge of metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement metrics, logging, tracing, and telemetry across cloud and edge components.
• Build monitoring pipelines, dashboards, and alerting frameworks for deployment health and store operations.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and reliability metrics for deployment services.

Skills

Java/Spring

Observability

System design

Data-driven

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overall, the team builds a robust, distributed deployment part of the Retail Platform that supports large-scale, low-bandwidth environments. The team is responsible for orchestrating and managing software rollouts across thousands of retail stores using cloud-native and edge-based solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the observability capabilities that provide visibility into deployment workflows, store health, device status, and platform reliability across thousands of geographically distributed retail locations. You will work closely with deployment team, platform, and operations teams to ensure proactive detection of issues, rapid troubleshooting, and data-driven operational excellence.

• 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 Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (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.

Mandatory skills:

• 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 ofevent-driven systemsandevent sourcingpatterns
• Hands-on experience withCI/CD pipelinesand automated testing

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity withSQL databasesand distributed systems concepts
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience inmonitoring and observability tools.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and visualization platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Victoria Metrics or New Relic.
• Experience troubleshooting complex distributed systems in production environments.

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