Staff Engineer

8+ years of backend development experience (with a target of matching our senior engineering standards), including deep proficiency in Go for building high-performance, low-overhead system components.

Production-Scale Observability Expertise: Hands-on experience implementing and operating telemetry pipelines for software-defined clustered, distributed, or cloud-native solutions.

Deep Mastery of the Metrics Stack: Strong technical knowledge of Prometheus (operators, alerting rules, scraping mechanics) and the VictoriaMetrics stack for long-term, high-cardinality storage.

Telemetry Industry Standards: Practical experience with the OpenTelemetry (OTel) ecosystem, including custom OTel collector configurations, instrumentation SDKs, and data processing.

Systems-Level Troubleshooting: A solid understanding of Linux networking, filesystems, and how clustered storage applications behave under heavy I/O workloads.

Collaborative Mindset: Proven ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams, driving technical clarity through code reviews and clear documentation.

Built and Maintained Telemetry Pipelines: A proven track record of developing or extending proprietary Go components to efficiently ingest, process, and forward massive streams of metrics, logs, and traces.

Optimized Resource Consumption: Experience managing the CPU and memory footprint of monitoring agents to ensure they do not compete with core storage data paths.

Strong Testing & Regression Habits: Dedication to writing robust unit and integration tests to ensure telemetry components remain stable during live cluster upgrades.

Independent Feature Delivery: A proven ability to take ownership of complex technical initiatives and independently make progress in a fast-paced environment.

Concept Visualization: Ability to turn abstract cluster state data into logical, well-structured telemetry frameworks that bring visibility to complex system scenarios.