Software Engineer - Observability
Software Engineer - Observability
Posted 5 days ago
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
- Design and build scalable telemetry ingest and storage pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Baseten's multi-cloud infrastructure
- Own and evolve core observability platforms, driving migrations and architectural improvements that improve reliability, reduce cost, and scale with organizational growth
- Build instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and integrations that make it easy for engineering teams to emit high-quality telemetry from their services
- Drive alerting and SLO infrastructure that enables teams to define, monitor, and respond to reliability targets with minimal noise
- Partner with Inference, Product, and Infrastructure teams to ensure observability solutions meet the unique needs of each organization
- Deep experience with at least one observability signal area (metrics, logging, tracing, or error analytics) and familiarity with the others
- Understanding of high-throughput data pipelines, columnar storage engines, and the tradeoffs involved in ingesting and querying telemetry data at scale
- Experience operating or building on top of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, Open
- Telemetry, or similar systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or GoExcellent communication skills and enjoyment in partnering with internal teams to improve their operational visibility and incident response capabilities
- Interest in applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows such as automated root cause analysis, anomaly detection, or intelligent alerting
- Excitement about building foundational infrastructure and comfort working independently on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity(U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)Paid parental leave
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot(U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
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