Staff Software Engineer - Capacity & Observability

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks an experienced Capacity Engineer to design and operate production systems that ingest, normalize, and analyze telemetry from diverse cloud environments. You will work on data pipelines and observability tooling that provide real-time fleet visibility and performance metrics.

The role requires writing production-quality Python and SQL, operating Kubernetes-native infrastructure, and collaborating with research, infrastructure, finance and engineering teams to

Qualifications

• Hands-on production engineering experience in data pipelines and observability.
• Strong programming ability in Python and SQL with production-grade code quality.
• Experience with one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and fleet-scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Build production systems for data ingestion, normalization, and telemetry pipelines.
• Develop observability tooling and real-time fleet health dashboards.
• Collaborate across research, infrastructure, inference, and finance teams to drive capacity efficiency.

Skills

Python

SQL

Observability tooling

Cloud providers

Data pipelines

Tools

Prometheus

PromQL

Grafana

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks an experienced Capacity Engineer to design and operate production systems that ingest, normalize, and analyze telemetry from diverse cloud environments. You will work on data pipelines and observability tooling that provide real-time fleet visibility and performance metrics.

The role requires writing production-quality Python and SQL, operating Kubernetes-native infrastructure, and collaborating with research, infrastructure, finance and engineering teams to