Senior Software Engineer, Observability

SoFi • Seattle, WA

9h

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team to create and modernize observability tools that allow engineers to understand application behavior. You will have the opportunity to directly impact the direction and architecture of our observability platform, focusing on developer enablement, platform architecture and reliability. If you are a seasoned engineer that excels where software development meets infrastructure please apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of software development and/or observability related experience.
• Expertise in observability platforms components and administration.
• Strong programming fundamentals (Go/Python).
• Expertise in enterprise observability best practices.
• Strong understanding of software design principles and best practices.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and practices (e.g. Terraform).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab ArgoCD).
• Familiarity with AI tools and their utilization into daily work (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Glean etc ).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically about observability platform design.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with curating and improving observability tools at scale.
• Experience with open telemetry and open telemetry collectors.
• Experience developing observability automation.
• Experience with security and compliance in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and maintain software that enables developers to efficiently interact with our observability platform.
• Lead the modernization of our observability platform architecture by evolving it toward scalable, cloud-native and OpenTelemetry-aligned standards.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design solutions that are intuitive, efficient, scalable, and reliable.
• Provide technical leadership for the Observability team to design and implement strategies for improving observability standards, optimizing costs, and enabling product teams.
• Lead the development of software solutions to enable engineers to seamlessly use metrics, monitors, traces and logs.
• Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement to enhance developer productivity.
• Collaborate with engineers and vendors to integrate solutions seamlessly into cloud environments.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in observability and software engineering.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level