Observability Platform Engineer: Go, Cloud & AI Telemetry

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a hands‑on software engineer to own end‑to‑end features in a cloud‑native observability platform. You will work across traces, logs, and metrics, building scalable ingestion, processing, and visualization components in a multi‑cloud environment.

You will contribute to high‑throughput data pipelines, alerting with Alertmanager, and Grafana dashboards, collaborating with product and customer teams in a remote‑first setup.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience building distributed systems or backend services.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang); experience with Rust, Python, or C++ is valuable.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, consistency, high availability, concurrency, and failure modes.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes-managed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to design and build reliable, high‑performance system software.
• Familiarity with observability concepts such as traces, logs, metrics, APM, and monitoring patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable observability features for traces, logs, and metrics spanning ingestion, processing, storage, and visualization.
• Work across control plane and data plane components in a multi-cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure), ensuring reliable operation and data consistency at scale.
• Build high‑throughput data pipelines that process telemetry data using OpenTelemetry Collector and related open‑source tooling.
• Develop and maintain alerting capabilities with Alertmanager, enabling customers to define, tune, and manage alerts with routing, inhibition, and notification management.
• Optimize time‑series data storage and query performance, handling high‑cardinality data and complex analytical queries.
• Contribute to data visualization dashboards in Grafana, creating intuitive customer‑facing experiences for exploring telemetry data.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management to translate customer and business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Investigate and resolve difficult production issues, debugging data synchronization across distributed systems and cloud providers.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to incidents promptly.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Observability

Debugging

Tools

Grafana

OpenTelemetry Collector

Alertmanager

Loki

Tempo

Job description

Hidden Jobs is seeking a hands‑on software engineer to own end‑to‑end features in a cloud‑native observability platform. You will work across traces, logs, and metrics, building scalable ingestion, processing, and visualization components in a multi‑cloud environment.

You will contribute to high‑throughput data pipelines, alerting with Alertmanager, and Grafana dashboards, collaborating with product and customer teams in a remote‑first setup.