Observability Platform Engineer — Scale & Reliability

SpaceXAI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 440,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Vision & Dental insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Discounts and perks

Job summary

SpaceXAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Observability to design and operate the core observability platform at scale. You will own metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting capabilities that empower engineers to monitor and optimize services across the fleet.

You will work on high-impact telemetry pipelines and APIs, partnering with infra and product teams to embed observability into internal platforms and ensure reliability and performance under massive load.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go, Rust or Scala and building scalable systems.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and telemetry architecture.
• Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics or ClickHouse.
• Experience with Kafka, Redis or large-scale time-series databases.
• Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing.
• Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes.
• Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs for real-time service insights.
• Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability.
• Partner with infra and product teams to integrate observability into platforms.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end.

Skills

Go

Rust

Scala

Distributed systems

Telemetry architecture

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

VictoriaMetrics

ClickHouse

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

VictoriaMetrics

ClickHouse

Kafka

Redis

Kubernetes

Job description

SpaceXAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for Observability to design and operate the core observability platform at scale. You will own metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting capabilities that empower engineers to monitor and optimize services across the fleet.

You will work on high-impact telemetry pipelines and APIs, partnering with infra and product teams to embed observability into internal platforms and ensure reliability and performance under massive load.