Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Design, build, and maintain a unified Go-based instrumentation service that consolidates instrumentation across the entire company, eliminating the need for multiple language-specific SDKs while maintaining reliability and performance.
• 2
  Manage the handling of the sending, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, ensuring data integrity that directly impacts the company's key prioritization and usage billing accuracy.
• 3
  Train and assist product development teams across the company on how to instrument their features using the unified service, providing documentation, guidance, and technical help.
• 4
  Manage on-call duties during working hours for systems that handle usage billing and instrumentation, ensuring system reliability and quick response to critical issues.
• 5
  Work across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to identify requirements and deliver solutions that serve multiple stakeholders.
• 6
  Make key architectural decisions that balance the needs of product teams (who need ease of use) with data consumers (who need reliability and correctness), ensuring the system serves as a foundational service for the company.

Requirements

• Proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services.
• Strong backend development experience, with the ability to design scalable, reliable systems serving internal and external customers.
• Experience with infrastructure concerns such as system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability.
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST, gRPC, or similar) that other teams integrate with.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders across team boundaries.
• Experience with instrumentation, analytics, data systems, or similar foundational infrastructure in application environments such as Ruby on Rails or comparable stacks.

Perks & Benefits