About the company
Join a remote-first engineering team building and scaling a distributed tracing platform that helps organizations understand application performance and troubleshoot complex systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, multi-month engineering projects from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operations.
- Own and improve key backend components across data ingestion, storage, query processing, and metrics generation.
- Develop and maintain scalable APIs that support observability products, external integrations, and AI-powered assistants.
- Produce technical design documents, participate in architecture reviews, and balance performance, cost, maintainability, and complexity.
- Improve production reliability and operational efficiency by defining and tracking SLOs, reducing recurring incidents, and automating operational tasks.
- Optimize query performance, ingestion throughput, and storage efficiency.
- Help scale multi-tenant infrastructure through autoscaling, customer limits, and safe rollouts.
- Partner with product managers and adjacent engineering teams to deliver platform capabilities.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and design feedback.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Contribute to open-source development.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex, multi-month software engineering projects.
- Strong hands-on experience building and operating distributed data systems in production.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Solid experience with Go, or substantial systems programming experience in Rust, C, or C++.
- Experience operating production services and participating in on-call rotations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work across teams and influence technical direction.
Conditions
- Compensation: base compensation range of CAD $164,490–$197,389 for Canada.
- Equity: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
- Remote work: remote-first working environment.
- Annual leave: global annual leave policy.