Senior Backend Software Engineer (Observability)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Observability): Building and scaling core observability services for a cloud AI platform, with an accent on high-volume telemetry ingestion, distributed storage, query engines, and alerting pipelines. Focus on solving complex production reliability and performance challenges while enabling AI-assisted troubleshooting across logs, metrics, traces, and operational data.

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; Remote - Europe; United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global builds a full-stack AI cloud platform for developers and enterprises, spanning compute, storage, networking, and applied AI.

What you will do

• Build and scale backend services for the Observability Platform, powering logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and troubleshooting.
• Design and implement high-volume telemetry ingestion and distributed storage systems.
• Develop query engines and alerting pipelines for operational data at scale.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance across Kubernetes, managed services, databases, and networking.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive fixes for operational stability.
• Collaborate with engineers across the stack to deliver new capabilities, including AI-assisted troubleshooting.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of Golang or willingness to quickly switch to it.
• Experience building distributed backend systems.
• Solid understanding of software reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Teamwork-oriented approach and strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability platforms/telemetry systems or open-source projects such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Mimir, or Tempo.
• Production experience using ClickHouse.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and opportunities for career growth and learning.
• Flexibility, ownership, and a collaborative, innovative culture.
• Work on impactful AI projects in an international environment.
• Fast-moving team with meaningful impact and trust.

Hiring process

• Interviews to assess experience with distributed backend systems, reliability/performance, and observability-related work.
• Technical evaluation focused on building and operating backend services for telemetry and alerting.
• Final discussions around collaboration and communication fit.