Staff Platform Engineer, Observability

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North AmericaFull-TimeSoftware Development
Company:Helius
Location:North America
Languages:English
Seniority level:Staff, 8+ years
Experience:8+ years
Skills:
DockerPythonSQLCloud ComputingElasticSearchKubernetesSoftware ArchitectureClickhouseGrafanaPrometheusCI/CDLinuxDevOpsSoftware EngineeringDebugging
Requirements:
8+ years of strong programming experience with deep understanding of observability systems Experience with tools like ClickHouse, Loki, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, or Grafana Ability to design systems that handle massive data volumes and sustained read/write throughput Strong systems thinking and intuition for performance, storage tradeoffs, and reliability
Responsibilities:
Architect a new observability stack across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting Build high-throughput observability pipelines optimized for fast, low-latency querying Lead the migration from Datadog to cost-efficient, performance-focused internal tools Partner with infra, product, and performance teams to support deep debugging workflows Own reliability, scaling, and cost efficiency across the entire observability system Keep systems simple, fast, and easy for engineers to reason about
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