Low-Latency Telemetry Backend Engineer

Aria Networks, Inc.; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Aria Networks, Inc. seeks a Server Software Engineer for Telemetry & Data Infrastructure to own backend systems ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering high-frequency network telemetry from Aria’s switch deployments at GPU-cluster scale.

You will design and operate pipelines sustaining microsecond granularity across 100,000+ GPU environments, handling vast data with strict latency budgets to support AI workloads and frontend systems.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Software Engineering and 5+ years of backend systems engineering with a focus on high-throughput or low-latency data infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale in Go, Rust, or C++.
• Deep familiarity with streaming architectures — Kafka, gRPC, or equivalent — including partitioning, ordering guarantees, and consumer group management.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency telemetry ingestion pipelines capable of sustaining microsecond-granularity data from switch ASICs across large-scale GPU cluster deployments.
• Architect and optimize time-series storage backends for telemetry workloads with demanding retention, cardinality, and query latency requirements.
• Define and enforce data schemas, stream partitioning strategies, and backpressure mechanisms across Kafka or gRPC-based ingestion paths.
• Build processing and aggregation layers that transform raw switch telemetry into structured, queryable signals for AI/ML and operator-facing systems.
• Profile and optimize critical pipeline components for CPU efficiency, memory pressure, and tail latency at sustained high-cardinality load.
• Collaborate with switch software engineers to define and evolve telemetry export contracts, sampling rates, and protocol bindings (gNMI, OpenTelemetry, INT, or equivalent).
• Instrument the pipeline itself — define SLOs, build internal observability, and own reliability and data fidelity in production.
• Drive technical decisions on storage engine selection, stream processing topology, and data lifecycle management as telemetry scope scales.

Skills

Backend systems

Latency-sensitive design

Performance profiling

Concurrency

Data pipelines

Education

BS/MS in Software Engineering

Tools

Kafka

gRPC

InfluxDB

Prometheus

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

gNMI

Job description

Aria Networks, Inc. seeks a Server Software Engineer for Telemetry & Data Infrastructure to own backend systems ingesting, processing, storing, and delivering high-frequency network telemetry from Aria’s switch deployments at GPU-cluster scale.

You will design and operate pipelines sustaining microsecond granularity across 100,000+ GPU environments, handling vast data with strict latency budgets to support AI workloads and frontend systems.