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Sr. Software Engineer, Observability
Palo Alto, CA. Posted 15 months ago
The role
You will help build and run SpaceXSI's observability platform, which lets engineers monitor, debug and optimize the performance and reliability of their systems. The work covers metrics, logs, tracing and alerting at massive scale.
What you will do
- Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing
- Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes
- Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs that give engineers real-time insights into their services
- Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability across the company
- Partner with infrastructure and product teams to integrate observability into internal platforms
- Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a technical discipline; OR 5+ years of professional software development experience in place of a degree
- Experience with production-level Go, Rust, or Scala
Nice to have
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases
- Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture
- Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Various other discounts and perks
Before you apply
- SpaceXSI is an equal opportunity employer
About the company
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Its teams work across Colossus supercomputers, Grok models, and applications including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X.