Staff Software Engineer — Observability & Distributed Systems

Jobgether; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first for eligible US locations

Equity opportunities

Performance-based bonuses

Travel credits

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Jobgether is partnering to fill a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations role in the United States. You will shape the technical direction of a large-scale Observability platform that processes millions of telemetry events per second across metrics, logs, and tracing.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate with infra teams to drive innovation. The role emphasizes building AI-ready observability capabilities, designing scalable distributed systems, and

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading technical direction and multi-team initiatives.
• Deep observability domain expertise across metrics/logging/tracing systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision and architecture for major areas of the Observability platform.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed systems processing tens of millions of events per second.
• Scale metrics pipelines and manage costs with OpenTelemetry, vmagent, and Grafana Mimir.
• Lead OpenTelemetry-based logging/tracing modernization and OpenSearch storage improvements.
• Develop fast, secure query systems with robust access controls and caching.
• Build self-service tools for telemetry cost attribution and data governance.
• Improve incident detection through anomaly detection and advanced monitoring.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Observability

Go/Java/Kotlin

Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Open Source Contributions

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana Mimir

VictoriaMetrics

OpenSearch

Jaeger

Kafka

Job description

Jobgether is partnering to fill a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations role in the United States. You will shape the technical direction of a large-scale Observability platform that processes millions of telemetry events per second across metrics, logs, and tracing.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate with infra teams to drive innovation. The role emphasizes building AI-ready observability capabilities, designing scalable distributed systems, and