Software Engineer | Observability

SingleStore engineers build the real-time data platform powering some of the world’s most demanding applications. Our cloud-native architecture enables high-performance transactional and analytical workloads at scale, and our teams ship production code continuously throughout the year. We operate in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment where engineers own their work end-to-end and partner closely across Product, Sales, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver meaningful business impact. **Position Summary** We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Observability Team and play a critical role in designing and delivering core capabilities for SingleStore's observability platform. This is a hands-on engineering role with end-to-end ownership of features and projects at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, database technology, and AI-powered observability. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will solve complex system-level problems, contribute meaningfully to technical direction, and partner with Product and customer-facing teams to ensure our platform meets the needs of enterprise customers and new adopters alike. What the team provides: Comprehensive customer observability over their workloads — enabling customers to understand their usage patterns, identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and leverage powerful alerting capabilities. Our platform unifies traces, logs, and metrics through an open-source-first approach. This is an ideal role for an engineer who thrives on deep technical challenges, takes pride in building durable systems, and is excited about bringing AI-powered observability experiences to customers. **What you'll do:** - Design and implement scalable observability features for traces, logs, and metrics — spanning ingestion, processing, storage, and visualization - Work across control plane and data plane components in a multi-cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure), ensuring reliable operation and data consistency at scale - Build high-throughput data pipelines that process telemetry data using OpenTelemetry Collector and related open-source tooling - Develop and maintain alerting capabilities with Alertmanager, enabling customers to define, tune, and manage alerts with routing, inhibition, and notification management - Optimize time-series data storage and query performance using SingleStore DB, handling high-cardinality data and complex analytical queries - Contribute to data visualization dashboards in Grafana, creating intuitive customer-facing experiences to explore telemetry data - Collaborate closely with Product Management to translate customer and business requirements into robust technical solutions - Investigate and resolve difficult issues in production and development environments, debugging data synchronization across distributed systems and cloud providers - Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to incidents promptly #### **You Experience:** - 2+ years of professional software development experience building distributed systems or backend services - Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) — experience with Rust, Python, or C++ is also valuable - Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts: scalability, consistency, high availability, concurrency, and failure modes - Familiarity with distributed systems managed via Kubernetes - Demonstrated ability to design and build reliable, high-performance system software - Experience working in environments where performance, scalability, and reliability are critical - Familiarity with observability concepts: traces, logs, metrics, APM, and monitoring patterns - Strong problem-solving and debugging skills with the ability to root-cause complex production issues - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with ability to collaborate in multicultural, remote-first teams - Code quality mindset: you value simplicity, performance, maintainability, and thorough testing **Pre…