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Software Engineer, Observability

xAI· Product
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Palo Alto, CA$180k - $440kunknownPosted 11mo ago

About the role

Observability team builds and operates the core infrastructure for monitoring, debugging, and optimizing performance and reliability at scale. Responsible for metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting to help engineering teams operate services, identify issues early, 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 internal platforms.
  • Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end.

Qualifications

  • Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or similar languages
  • 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
  • Experience with Kafka, Redis, or large-scale time series databases
  • Experience operating observability pipelines in Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments

Benefits

  • equity
  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short & long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • various other discounts and perks
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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