Software Engineer, Observability

  • Airtable
  • San Francisco, California
  • 04/02/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications Java Python Software Engineer

Job Description

Employer Industry: Technology - Software Development

Why consider this job opportunity:

  • Salary range up to $270,000
  • Opportunity to lead the modernization of observability tools, impacting the entire engineering organization
  • Define and execute a multi-year roadmap for advanced logging, tracing, and metrics solutions
  • Collaborative culture with a focus on data-driven decisions and platform reliability
  • Chance for significant career growth by driving major projects across the engineering organization

What to Expect (Job Responsibilities):

  • Architect and scale core observability systems, including logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance the observability posture
  • Mentor a growing team of infrastructure engineers and share best practices
  • Optimize performance and costs of large-scale data pipelines and storage
  • Extend observability to AI features by instrumenting prompts and model calls

What is Required (Qualifications):

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years focused on observability or infrastructure at scale
  • Proven experience implementing and running production-grade logging, metrics, or tracing systems
  • Proficiency in distributed systems concepts, data streaming pipelines, and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Strong knowledge of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry
  • Ability to communicate technical trade-offs and architectural plans effectively

How to Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications):

  • Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating across multiple teams
  • Comfort with programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java for building observability tooling
  • Passion for enabling engineering organizations through reliable observability tools

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