Senior Network Observability Engineer - High-Performance

Linuxconfig; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Competitive compensation

Catered lunch

Job summary

Clockwork Systems is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the architecture and scaling of a high-performance network monitoring and observability platform. You will build systems that provide visibility into RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP/IP networks, and collaborate across teams.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, Linux networking, and modern observability stacks like Grafana/Prometheus, with a focus on low-latency data paths and scalable telemetry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in C++, Go, Python, Rust, or similar systems programming languages.
• Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure projects and distributed systems design.
• Experience building distributed systems, backend services, telemetry pipelines, or observability platforms.
• Hands-on experience with RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, or other high-performance network fabrics.
• Familiarity with libibverbs, RDMA verbs, RDMA CM, queue pairs, completion queues, memory registration.
• Strong knowledge of Linux networking, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, routing, MTU, congestion control, and performance tuning.
• Experience with traceroute-style diagnostics, path discovery, network reachability checks, synthetic probes, or active measurements.
• Experience with monitoring/visualization platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry.
• Strong debugging skills across software, OS, server, and network layers.
• Experience operating production systems in Linux-based environments.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to build reliable, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and scale high-performance network monitoring platforms for RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP/IP infrastructure.
• Build backend telemetry services, observability dashboards, alerts, diagnostics, anomaly detection, SLA monitoring, and traffic analysis workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, OS, server, RDMA, and network layers while optimizing low-latency collection, aggregation, and alerting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions, improve engineering practices, automate operational workflows, and contribute to the platform's technical direction.

Skills

C++

Go

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

Linux networking

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Debugging

Production Linux

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Kubernetes

ethtool

tcpdump

Wireshark

rdma-core

Job description

Clockwork Systems is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the architecture and scaling of a high-performance network monitoring and observability platform. You will build systems that provide visibility into RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP/IP networks, and collaborate across teams.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, Linux networking, and modern observability stacks like Grafana/Prometheus, with a focus on low-latency data paths and scalable telemetry.