Staff Software Engineer - Data Query

Staff Software Engineer - Data Query

As a Staff backend engineer on the Data Query team, you will build a scalable, reliable, and performant analytics platform for observability and security products, enabling customers to rapidly perform high-quality, real-time analyses of events and incidents. The Data Query team manages the engine for querying exabytes of logs data, millions of metrics data points, and terabytes of tracing data every day. Your core responsibilities include designing and implementing highly performant code to minimize CPU and memory overhead, directly impacting the platform's operational costs and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant, scalable backend systems that process and manage petabytes of customer data
• Optimize code to reduce latency and resource footprint in a microservices environment
• Write robust code and demonstrate its robustness through automated tests
• Implement telemetry and logging to help track granular cost-per-service metrics
• Participate in on-call rotations and help troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in production
• Work as a member of a team, helping the team respond quickly