Software Engineer - Observability, Mid-Level

Jobright.ai; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a Software Engineer for their Observability team to build and maintain the observability platform. This role involves designing scalable infrastructure for performance metrics, developing APIs, and ensuring system reliability. Required skills include proficiency in Go, Rust, or Scala, and experience with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or similar languages.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture.
• Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure.
• Build high-performance telemetry pipelines for massive ingestion.
• Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs for real-time service insights.
• Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation and alerting.
• Partner with teams to integrate observability into platforms.

Skills

Production-level proficiency in Go

Rust

Scala

Deep understanding of distributed systems

Telemetry architecture

Experience with Kafka

Experience with Redis

Experience with large-scale time series databases

Kubernetes

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

VictoriaMetrics

ClickHouse

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Job Summary:

xAI is a company focused on creating AI systems that enhance human understanding of the universe. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Observability team to build and maintain the observability platform, ensuring system performance and reliability at scale.

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 that allow engineers to get real-time insights into their services.

• Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability across the company.

• Partner with infrastructure and product teams to deeply integrate observability into our internal platforms.

• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or a similar languages

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture.

• Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale.

• Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse.

• Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases.

• Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments.

Company:

XAI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops AI solutions and tools to enhance reasoning and search capabilities. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. xAI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Software Development

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