Software Engineer, Platform

Speedrun Talent Network; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company matching

Hybrid work with in-office and remote

Job summary

Everlaw is seeking an Observability Engineer in Oakland, CA to build, modernize, and operate platform-wide logging, metrics, and alerting infrastructure. You’ll enable real-time visibility for production systems across Java and Python services in a FedRAMP-compliant, highly available environment.

You’ll work hybrid in our Oakland office with W/MTh in office and Tue/Fri remote option, collaborating on Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform, and incident response while shaping the telemetry stack

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building, testing, and operating production systems in a cloud environment (AWS preferred).
• Proficient in a coding language such as Java, Go or Python and comfortable picking up new tools quickly.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools for logging, metrics, or alerting (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Splunk, PagerDuty, etc).
• Experience with infrastructure as code and container technologies, such as Terraform, Docker, Ansible, or Helm.
• Demonstrates clear communication and ability to break large projects into milestones.
• Authorized to work in the United States; Visa sponsorship is not offered for this role.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain log, metric, and alert infrastructure across environments using Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and PagerDuty.
• Write reusable libraries in Java and Python to emit structured logs, metrics, and traces from services.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform to version, review, and reproduce dashboards and telemetry pipelines.
• Improve observability architecture and scale telemetry, incorporating emerging AI tools.
• Tune alerts and incident response, create runbooks, and assist engineers during live incidents.
• Support regulatory compliance (FedRAMP) and data-handling requirements in observability systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive post-incident improvements.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

AWS

Observability

Incident response

Clear communication

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

InfluxDB

Splunk

PagerDuty

Terraform

Docker

Ansible

Helm

Job description

The Role

You'll build, modernize, and operate the platform-wide logging, metrics, and alerting infrastructure that gives Everlaw engineers real-time visibility into how our platform behaves in production. Working across the entire telemetry stack—from core libraries in Java and Python to ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and alerting you’ll ensure our engineering teams can detect, diagnose, and resolve issues while maintaining strict FedRAMP compliance and high availability.

This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain log, metric, and alert infrastructure across commercial and federal environments using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and PagerDuty.
• Write reusable libraries and integrations in Java and Python that make it easy for engineers to emit structured logs, metrics, and traces from their services.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform to ensure dashboards, alert rules, and telemetry pipelines are versioned, reviewable, and reproducible.
• Improve our observability architecture by designing telemetry solutions that scale and incorporates emerging AI tools as Everlaw continues to grow.
• Improve alert quality and incident response by tuning noisy alerts, creating actionable runbooks, and helping engineers find the necessary signal during live incidents.
• Support regulatory and compliance efforts by keeping observability systems thoroughly documented and aligned with FedRAMP and data-handling requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to production issues, and drive post-incident improvements to prevent recurrence.

About You

• You have at least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building, testing, and operating production systems in a cloud environment (AWS preferred).
• You are proficient in a coding language such as Java, Go or Python and are comfortable picking up new tools quickly.
• You have hands‑on experience with observability tools for logging, metrics, or alerting (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Splunk, PagerDuty, etc).
• You have experience with infrastructure as code and container technologies, such as Terraform, Docker, Ansible, or Helm.
• You communicate technical concepts clearly and navigate ambiguity by breaking large projects into clear milestones.
• You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring U.S. employment visas for this role.

Bonus points

• Experience with OpenTelemetry or distributed tracing systems.
• Experience building or operating telemetry pipelines and log routing at scale.
• Experience operating distributed systems or working in regulated environments (FedRAMP, HIPAA, or SOC 2).
• Experience reducing alert fatigue and refining incident management practices.

The Team — Observability

The Observability team builds and evolves the infrastructure, observability, automation, and delivery systems that power Everlaw's engineering organization. By improving cloud architecture, development workflows, and platform reliability, the team helps engineers ship confidently while keeping Everlaw resilient, efficient, and secure. This work reduces friction for developers and ensures the platform performs when legal teams need it most.

Total Rewards & Benefits

The expected salary range for this role is $150,000 to $190,000. Final salary depends on factors including the candidate's experience and skills, and the base pay range is subject to change. This role is also eligible for equity and the benefits below.

Health & well-being

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Membership to Modern Health to support mental health and wellness
• Paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Financial rewards

• Competitive equity grants, so you share in Everlaw's long-term growth
• 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation

Growth & everyday perks

• 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave
• Four "Everlawlidays" (additional paid company-wide days off) per year
• Annual allocation for learning & development and relevant professional membership dues
• Hybrid work with regular work-from-home days and flexibility for life's logistics
• Monthly home internet reimbursement, plus a stipend for your desk setup
• Catered lunch each workday, plus snacks and company-wide events in our offices

About Everlaw

When a lawsuit or investigation happens, teams must comb through vast amounts of electronic evidence — emails, documents, chats, files — to find what matters. That work is not a side task but the case itself, and where most of the time and money in litigation goes. Everlaw is the litigation and investigation management platform changing that, using AI to turn mountains of messy data into the handful of facts that win or lose a case, compressing weeks of work into hours.

We're the kind of place that’s ranked #1 on G2 in our category and named a Great Place to Work by our own team. So if you want a front row seat to an industry in transformation, career-defining work you’ll be proud to tell people about, and real upside at a company in control of its own destiny, we'd love to get to know you.

• #LI-EJ1
• #LI-Hybrid

At Everlaw, you'll shape how AI re-wires the legal industry, at a category-leading business built on a mission to illuminate the truth.

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