Sr. Software Engineer - Observability
Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Engineering - Pipeline · listed March 25, 2025
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
7+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
4
Length
631 words
In the posting’s own words
As a Senior 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.
- 7+ 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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