Senior Software Engineer Distributed Systems

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About the Team

About the Role

• Design build and debug distributed systems across cloud-native production environments
• Develop platform services for metrics ingestion processing and alerting at scale
• Shape how AI agents interact with observability infrastructure through tooling APIs and operational workflows
• Collaborate across teams to deliver infrastructure that is resilient observable and easy to operate

About You

Basic Qualification

• 6 years of professional software engineering experience with production-grade systems

• 4 years designing building and operating large-scale distributed systems on public or private clouds

• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals including concurrency fault tolerance high availability and failure-mode analysis

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience

Other Qualification

• Agentic Engineering:Interest or experience building MCP servers agent-facing APIs or tooling that helps engineers and AI systems operate complex platforms

• Metrics & Observability Platforms:Experience with Prometheus-style monitoring ecosystems time-series metrics pipelines or large-scale observability platforms in production

• Go & Python:Strong proficiency in Go for production services; experience with Python for tooling automation data processing or ML workloads

• API & Architecture:Experience designing and implementing robust scalable HTTP and gRPC APIs in multi-tenant environments

• Kubernetes & Infrastructure as Code:Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes using infrastructure-as-code and platform configuration workflows such as Helm Jsonnet Terraform or GitOps-style deployment pipelines

• Quality & Testing:Strong testing discipline across unit integration and end-to-end tests for distributed systems

• Collaboration & Leadership:Demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end work closely with SRE and partner engineering teams and mentor other engineers

• Technical Communication:Excellent written communication skills for architecture designs operational runbooks and technical documentation

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