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Posted 26 Oct 2026

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure - Observability Streaming

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Employment
Full time
Workplace
Hybrid
Team
Engineering
Posted
26 Oct 2026

About the role

Job Description

Observability Platforms maintains the platforms and products for metrics ingestion, storage, retrieval, visualization, alerting, incident creation & escalation, remediation, health-checking and experience platform(s). We are one of the very few companies globally with a custom-built platform to support billions of telemetry signals ingested/processed in realtime at millions of QPS.

This role will be based in Bangalore, India.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect, build, run, and scale real-time streaming systems/real-time processing systems at massive scale. 

  • Own the technical direction of the observability platform end to end - the collection, processing/enriching telemetry events and evolve it so insight keeps pace with the growth of our systems.

  • Scale distributed systems and make the hard architectural trade-offs - across processing models, data delivery guarantees, storage tiers, and the balance of cost, latency, and durability - while writing code and delivering with speed and quality.

  • Serve as a role model and coach for engineers, with a strong bias for action, providing architectural guidance and mentorship to up-level the engineering organization.

  • Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7. Produce high-quality infrastructure that is thoroughly tested, code reviewed & resilient.

  • Partner with teams across the company to drive adoption of the platform(s), turning their instrumentation and diagnostic needs into measurable improvements in engineering productivity.

  • Work closely with leadership and product/technology partners to define the roadmap and surface opportunities to improve observability.

  • Navigate and resolve cross-team conflicts to align stakeholders and foster a cohesive, collaborative engineering culture.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

  • BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience

  • 12+ years of industry experience in software design and development, with problem-solving and system-design skills

  • 12+ years of experience programming in object-oriented languages such as Java, C++, Python, Go, C and/or other Functional languages

  • Experience building and operating large-scale streaming and real-time processing systems, including stateful processing and data delivery guarantees

  • Hands on experience developing large-scale observability platforms with a deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, Pub-Sub systems, logging /metrics / tracing platforms

  • 5+ years of experience in an architect or technical leadership position

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 8+ years building and optimizing large-scale distributed processing systems and client-server architectures.

  • Experience with stream processing and messaging technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Samza, Beam, or Spark Streaming, including stateful stream processing, windowing, watermarks, and delivery semantics.

  • Depth in observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and events, including high-cardinality ingestion and low-latency query at scale.

  • Experience building systems with AI and using AI-powered coding agents and assistants in everyday development to design, implement, test, and review software at a higher velocity and quality bar.

  • Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, understand product priorities, think big-picture, and solve core problems efficiently.

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts and drive technical strategy across teams and geographies.

  • Maintainer or contributor of open source projects

Suggested Skills:

  • Technical Leadership

  • Distributed Systems (Streaming)

  • Real-Time Data Processing

  • Software Design

  • Cross-organizational Collaboration

Additional Information

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