Observability Platform Engineer – Scalable Networks

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; On-site; USD 76,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Software Engineer for Observability to design, deliver, and operate a scalable observability platform. You will tackle bottlenecks in the Metrics & Alerting pipeline and contribute to highly distributed systems.

Ideal candidates have Go experience, strong knowledge of TSDBs/Columnar stores, Linux scalability, and familiarity with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Thanos.

Qualifications

• Software engineering background with proficiency in Go.
• Proficiency in data structures and databases like TSDBs, Columnar stores.
• Proficiency in distributed Linux environments.
• Proficiency in designing high-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos.
• Experience in fast, high-growth environments.
• Experience in a 24/7/365 service environment.
• Exquisite written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with Internetworking, networking protocols OSI 2-7 and BGP.
• Strong bias for action.
• Bonus: high-bandwidth transit Internetworking and routing.
• Bonus: passion for code simplicity and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and operate software and a platform that advances Observability capabilities.
• Solve scaling bottlenecks in critical services of the Metrics & Alerting stack.
• Work on highly distributed and scalable systems.
• Participate in knowledge sharing and mentoring across the team.
• Participate in global on-call rotation for services owned by your team.
• Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies.
• Contribute to open-source.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Data structures & TSDBs/Columnar

Linux environments

Networking fundamentals (OSI 2-7, BGP)

Strong written & verbal communication

Tools

Prometheus

Alertmanager

Thanos

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Software Engineer for Observability to design, deliver, and operate a scalable observability platform. You will tackle bottlenecks in the Metrics & Alerting pipeline and contribute to highly distributed systems.

Ideal candidates have Go experience, strong knowledge of TSDBs/Columnar stores, Linux scalability, and familiarity with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Thanos.