Staff Software Engineer, Large-Scale Observability Platform

Intuit

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 189,000 - 255,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Core PDX Observability Engineering team to design and deliver a next-generation logging and observability platform at scale. You will own architecture across on-prem and cloud deployments (AWS/GCP) and lead high-availability pipelines while mentoring engineers.

You will work on edge/collection agents, data routing, and AI-assisted tooling, with dashboards and alerts to monitor pipeline health and cost.

Qualifications

8-10+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems, logging/data pipelines, or observability platforms.
Deep expertise in building and operating high-throughput data pipelines at multi-TB/PB daily scale.
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and sidecar/daemonset architectures.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and evolve the One Intuit Logging system end-to-end from log generation to ingestion, routing, and storage.
Own and drive pipeline and cost optimization initiatives across the logging stack.
Lead design and development of core logging components (FELS, S3 Log Writer, Kinesis/CloudWatch Log Writer, Log Router, etc.).
Build observability into the platform itself—Grafana dashboards, metrics, and alerting for health and cost.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, setting engineering standards and design direction across the team.