Senior Software Engineer II, Open Telemetry/ Open source contributions - Remote

Overview

An overview paragraph about the job

In Short

• Design and implement features for an extremely robust and lean OpenTelemetry collection engine
• Write robust code with unit and integration tests
• Contribute to the upstream OpenTelemetry project
• Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Work as a team member, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs
• Experience with CI and on-call production support

Requirements

• B.Tech, M.Tech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related discipline
• 6+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership
• Experience with GoLang or other statically typed language (Java, Scala, C++). Willingness to learn GoLang if you don't have the experience.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment
• Understand the performance characteristics of commonly used data structures (maps, lists, trees, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, solve problems and adapt to new technologies

Benefits

• Familiarity with the monitoring/observability space
• Working experience with GitHub actions or other CI pipelines
• A GitHub account with recent activity and contributions to open source projects
• Experience in multi-threaded programming and distributed systems is highly desirable.
• Comfortable working with Unix type operating systems (Linux, OS X)
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform etc.
• Agile software development experience (test-driven development, iterative and incremental development)
• Contributing to an Open source project and preferably open source telemetry collection