Principal Product Engineer
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Dash0Observability Platform
EMEA - RemoteFull-TimePrincipal
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Artificial IntelligenceKafkaGoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Deep architectural expertise in building and scaling distributed backend systems using Go
- Solid knowledge of Kafka and messaging systems, with the creativity to design efficient solutions for high-throughput scenarios
- A track record of leveraging AI and agentic coding tools to accelerate development, while applying deep technical judgment to verify and own the final output
- Strong product and economic thinking — you don't just build features, you evaluate feasibility and resource efficiency alongside product teams
- Proven ability as a mentor and cultural leader, with a history of improving team processes and elevating the quality of work around you
- Expertise in OpenTelemetry and monitoring
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for our core ingestion and processing pipelines, anticipating future bottlenecks and ensuring systems scale smoothly
- Process and manipulate telemetry data at scale, avoiding single points of failure while delivering novel approaches to telemetry volume management
- Own platform reliability — proactively identifying risks before they become incidents and fostering a security-first culture
- Define standards for code quality, testing, and observability across the team
- Mentor engineers, review PRDs for technical feasibility, and simplify complex designs to align with product goals
- Collaborate with product teams to evaluate feasibility and resource efficiency, ensuring we deliver value to customers economically
- Contribute to our own engineering observability practices — we use OpenTelemetry on ourselves
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