Sr. Software Engineer, Observability

SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, OBSERVABILITY

The Observability team builds and operates the core infrastructure that enables engineers to monitor, debug, and optimize the performance and reliability of their systems. We handle telemetry at massive scale — billions of time series and petabytes of logs — with strict performance and availability requirements.

You will be part of the small, high-impact team responsible for building and maintaining SpaceXSI's observability platform. You’ll own critical systems that power metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting enabling engineering teams to operate services at scale, identify issues before they impact users, and drive systemic reliability improvements.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design and implement scalable observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing

Build high-performance telemetry pipelines that handle massive ingestion volumes

Develop APIs, query engines, and UIs that allow engineers to get real-time insights into their services

Define and enforce best practices for instrumentation, alerting, and reliability across the company

Partner with infrastructure and product teams to deeply integrate observability into our internal platforms

Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or technical discipline; OR 5+ years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree

Experience with production-level Go, Rust, or Scala

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases

Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments

Deep understanding of distributed systems and telemetry architecture

Experience building and operating infrastructure at scale

Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, or ClickHouse

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$180,000 - $330,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.