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Staff Software Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Mon, Nov 02, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days

Job Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Tech Foundations team, the role will be a remote eligible full-time position responsible for setting the technical direction for the Observability platform, leading design and production efforts, and enhancing system performance for both engineers and AI agents.

Key responsibilities
  • Lead the design and delivery of distributed systems handling tens of millions of events per second
  • Align roadmaps across Observability and partner teams, driving decisions on build, buy, and open-source solutions
  • Mentor engineers and improve design reviews, operational readiness, and on-call processes
Required qualifications
  • 9+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Proven track record of leading the technical direction of systems or multi-team projects
  • Deep experience in telemetry domains such as metrics, logs, or distributed tracing
  • Strong coding skills in Go or Java/Kotlin
  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes and AWS

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