Senior Software Engineer - Observability

Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Engineering - Pipeline · listed September 1, 2024

The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
4
Length
653 words

In the posting’s own words

As a software engineer in the Observability team , you will develop observability solutions that provide insights into the health and performance of our products and infrastructure.

What it asks for · 4

  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of production-level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar languages.
  • Experience in software development, in large-scale distributed systems
  • Familiarity with metrics collection, health monitoring, and observability tools

What the job covers

  • Establish standards for logging, metrics, and tracing.
  • You will collaborate with different teams to identify metrics that allow engineers to observe how well the system and different subcomponents are performing.
  • You will build tooling and infrastructure to allow components to efficiently emit, aggregate, and store metrics that can be displayed on dashboards and used for alerting.
  • Ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of systems by contributing to and executing the technical roadmap.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and reduce incident response times to maintain operational excellence.
  • Optimize platform and infrastructure by analyzing system expenses, enhancing visibility, promoting mindful usage, enforcing retention policies, streamlining queries, and right-sizing resources to reduce observability costs.

Degree language

  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Observability4×
  • Distributed systems
Languages
  • C++
  • Java
  • Python
  • Scala
Product & design
  • Roadmap
  • User experience
Data
  • Databricks
Security & compliance
  • Security
Ways of working
  • On-call

Words the posting leans on

  • data6×
  • infrastructure5×
  • system5×
  • metrics4×
  • observability4×
  • platform4×
  • software4×
  • customers3×
  • engineers3×
  • technical3×
  • world3×
  • allow2×
  • build2×
  • develop2×
  • development2×
  • different2×

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