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Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Pinterest

Location
US
Workplace
Remote
Employment
Full Time
Salary
USD 177,185–364,795/yr
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Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the observability roadmap, treating it as a product
  • Understand engineering team needs and translate them into technical solutions
  • Architect, build, and scale distributed observability infrastructure
  • Build high-performance data pipelines and storage for telemetry analysis
  • Establish observability standards and patterns across the organization
  • Mentor engineers, lead architectural reviews, and influence technical decisions
  • Partner with SRE, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and other teams
  • Stay current with observability trends and technologies

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Product Mindset: Demonstrated ability to work backwards from customer needs
  • Experience building internal platforms or tools with strong adoption
  • 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong background in building data pipelines
  • Hands-on experience with modern observability tools and practices
  • Expert-level coding skills in languages like Java, Python, Go, or Scala
  • Ability to write production-quality code
  • Ability to see the big picture while managing complex technical details
  • Experience building observability platforms from the ground up or significantly scaling existing solutions
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies
  • Track record of driving adoption of internal platforms
  • Experience with machine learning or anomaly detection applied to observability use cases
  • Strong communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels

Preferred

  • Contributions to open-source observability projects

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • Go
  • Scala
  • Kafka
  • Flink
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Kubernetes

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