Senior Backend Engineer - OpenTelemetry
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GermanyFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Languages
- English
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPythonGCPJavaKubernetesTypeScriptAzureGoPrometheusRustDevOps
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in Go.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven contributions to open-source projects, ideally within OpenTelemetry or Prometheus ecosystems.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure automation tools.
- Familiarity with observability concepts including metrics, logging, and tracing in production systems.
- Experience working in SaaS and distributed production environments.
- Strong communication skills in English.
- Exposure to DevOps practices and production troubleshooting.
- Additional programming experience in languages such as Rust, Java, Python, or TypeScript is a plus.
- Experience applying AI/ML frameworks for AIOps use cases is an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems in Go, supporting high-volume observability data processing.
- Lead and contribute to the technical direction of OpenTelemetry integration within customer and production environments.
- Actively participate in the OpenTelemetry open-source community, including SIGs, specifications, and core component contributions.
- Develop and optimize distributed systems for logs, metrics, traces, and security event processing.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud-native observability platforms.
- Contribute to architectural decisions around data pipelines, backend services, and infrastructure automation.
- Support production systems by troubleshooting complex issues and improving system resilience.
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