Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)

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AffirmObservability software

Location: Remote USFull-TimeStaff

Salary204,000 - 264,000 USD per year

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Have 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
Have experience with backend languages such as Python or Kotlin.
Have an extensive track record developing highly available distributed systems.
Have experience with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Flink, and Kubernetes.
Have built or operated high-volume telemetry systems involving metrics, logs, and/or traces.
Have experience with technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and Terraform.
Bring knowledge of observability practices including structured and wide events, sampling, cardinality management, and SLOs.
Have driven adoption of a platform standard across multiple engineering teams through tooling and engagement.
Have experience planning and delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality.
Write high-quality code that is understandable and usable by others.
Have either equivalent practical experience or a bachelor's degree in a related field.

Own the architecture of the telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB/day.
Design log-sampling strategies that reduce volume and cost while retaining useful incident signals.
Shape how observability is incorporated into agentic development so AI coding agents and code review catch instrumentation gaps.
Set the team's technical strategy on a year-long time scale and connect it to critical business-impacting projects.
Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, infrastructure, and product teams across the product development lifecycle.
Establish monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting to support operations and on-call efforts.
Set code review and design standards, and advocate for them through writing and tech talks.
Mentor and develop the six-engineer team through feedback, guidance, and example.

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