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Software Engineer, Observability
Retool
San Francisco$164k–260kOn-site1y ago
- Employment
- Full-time
About the role
- Help build a great product that improves productivity of engineers across the globe by several orders of magnitude
- Design and build observability solutions for collection, delivery, analysis, and visualization of metrics, logs, and traces
- Work with engineers, designers, product managers and customer support to instrument and implement observability into our products and internal apps
- Build orchestration and automation tooling around off-the-shelf solutions (e.g. Datadog, Grafana), as well as build custom solutions that meet our unique needs
- Be involved in the development of scalable, distributed software systems that support globally distributed customer base
- Coach and mentor other SWE; Provide leadership in iteratively defining & refining development processes as the team grows
- 3+ years of related professional experience, 2+ years working on a mission critical platform with high-availability requirements
- Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and observability (e.g. Datadog, Stackdriver, Wavefront, Grafana) stacks
- A strong understanding of system availability, resiliency, and recoverability
- Strong organizational skills with high attention-to-detail and able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to thrive in a high-energy, high-growth, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Willing to learn new skills and implement new technologies
- Familiarity with TypeScript and Node.js backend development
- Familiarity with React frontend web development
- Experience with observability platforms and tools like Datadog, Grafana, etc..
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Equity Compensation
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