Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Together AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Together AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle, combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure.

The storage and observability team is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust distributed storage solutions and comprehensive observability platforms, providing critical insights into system performance and GPU utilization, and proactively resolving issues.

Qualifications

• Experience with observability platforms and cloud-native monitoring services across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Proficient in Go or Python and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
• Proven ability to design, operate, and scale large distributed systems and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a scalable observability platform (metrics, logs, traces) using Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse/ClickStack, and OpenTelemetry, with telemetry pipelines and log aggregation.
• Develop automated monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection systems, including SLIs/SLOs, runbooks, and predictive analytics for critical services.
• Build and deploy custom observability tools and infrastructure-as-code using Go, Python, Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance distributed tracing and application monitoring, and lead incident response with post-mortem analysis.
• Define observability best practices.

Skills

Observability platforms

Go

Python

Cloud-native monitoring

CI/CD & GitOps

Distributed systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ClickStack

OpenTelemetry

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Together AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle, combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure.

The AI Infrastructure team at Together AI is at the forefront of building and scaling the foundational systems that power our generative AI platform. The storage and observability team is crucial for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust distributed storage solutions, ensuring seamless data access and management. They are also responsible for developing comprehensive observability platforms, providing critical insights into system performance and GPU utilization, and proactively identifying and resolving issues.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a scalable observability platform (metrics, logs, traces) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, ClickStack, and OpenTelemetry, including telemetry data pipelines and log aggregation workflows.
• Develop automated monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection systems, including SLIs/SLOs, runbooks, and predictive analytics for critical services.
• Build and deploy custom observability tools and infrastructure-as-code using Go, Python, Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance distributed tracing and application monitoring, and lead incident response with post-mortem analysis.
• Define observability best practices.

Requirements

• Expertise in observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ClickStack, OpenTelemetry) and cloud-native monitoring services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Experience designing, operating, and scaling large-scale distributed systems and pipelines for high-volume data ingestion and real-time querying.
• Deep understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture, service mesh technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows.
• Expertise in managing databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and time-series databases with high-cardinality data.

Preferred

• Experience monitoring AI/ML infrastructure, GPU clusters, and custom metrics for model performance and training pipelines.
• Background in high-frequency, low-latency systems monitoring, chaos engineering, and reliability testing.
• Contributions to open-source observability projects.
• Familiarity with security monitoring and compliance frameworks.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $200,000 - $280,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.