Lead of Engineering (Observability)

TL;DR

Lead of Engineering (Observability): Leading and coaching a team responsible for designing, building, and operating complex distributed observability systems for operational metrics, visualization, logs, traces, and alerts. Focus on scaling systems to handle billions of metrics time series and petabytes of logs, traces, and events for internal and external use cases.

Location: Hybrid, must be based in Dublin, Ireland

Company

hirify.global is a product company that provides a unified, globally distributed, multi-cloud database platform, hirify.global Atlas, empowering customers to innovate and unleash AI.

What you will do

• Lead and coach a team of motivated individual contributors.
• Contribute to the code, design, and architecture of the systems your team develops.
• Collaborate with product managers, program managers, and other engineering teams to deliver new features.
• Drive best practices for monitoring, reliability, and performance of observability services.
• Work with customers and support engineers to fix issues and participate in on-call rotation.
• Actively participate in growing the team by hiring.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience leading engineering teams that have built and maintained large-scale systems.
• Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Go, Java, Rust, C).
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, and their time and space complexity.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Work format: Hybrid, must be based in Dublin, Ireland.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration.
• Commitment to developing a supportive and enriching culture for all employees.
• Benefits include employee affinity groups, fertility assistance, and a generous parental leave policy.
• Commitment to providing necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
• Equal opportunities employer.