Senior Staff Engineer (Observability)

TL;DR

Senior Staff Engineer (Observability): Designing, building, and operating high-scale internal and external observability stacks for the hirify.global platform with an accent on metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for critical workloads. Focus on innovating and scaling systems to handle petabytes of data, leading architecture, and ensuring performance, scalability, and resiliency in distributed systems.

Location: We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model.

Company

hirify.global is a global database platform provider, redefining databases for the AI era and empowering innovation with its unified database platform, hirify.global Atlas.

What you will do

• Define standards and vision for the mission-critical observability platform, leading architecture and implementation.
• Design and implement observability improvements for diagnosing production issues.
• Handle customer escalations and coach teammates on issue resolution.
• Own and ensure high quality of code maintained by the Observability Team.
• Diagnose and fix bugs, preventing future introductions and investigating performance impact.
• Lead development and project management for large company-wide initiatives.

Requirements

• Minimum 12 years of experience in designing, programming, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent C/C++/Java/Rust mission-critical software systems.
• Experience running latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems.
• Strong systems fundamentals, including multi-threaded programming, performance profiling, and expert-level programming.
• Familiarity with database internals or building core components for data processing systems.
• Familiarity with observability ecosystem and best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills.

Nice to have

• Indexing or database performance tuning experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration.
• Commitment to developing a supportive and enriching culture for all employees.
• Employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and a generous parental leave policy.
• Opportunity to work on foundational infrastructure of a popular database.
• Equal opportunities employer committed to providing necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

Hiring process

• In the first month, you will understand high-level architecture and fix bugs.
• In three months, you will contribute to a major project and diagnose/fix customer issues.
• In six months, you will take on code review responsibilities and be involved in design reviews.
• In twelve months, you will lead new features, mentor engineers, and drive the long-term technical roadmap.