Staff Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation (Golang)
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Key Responsibilities
- 1Architect and guide the design of a unified Go-based instrumentation service, setting the technical direction to replace multiple language-specific SDKs and maintain reliable, high-performance instrumentation across the company.
- 2Own the strategy for handling, validating, and improving instrumentation data quality across the system, increasing billing accuracy and strengthening product planning.
- 3Coordinate mentorship and training initiatives with product development teams across the company, improving adoption of instrumentation best practices and raising the quality and consistency of feature instrumentation.
- 4Set reliability and turnaround standards for systems that enable usage billing and instrumentation, contribute to critical-incident on-call coverage, and coordinate post-incident improvements that reduce recurring issues.
- 5Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization, aligning evolving requirements and delivering solutions that serve multiple stakeholders across the company.
- 6Own key architectural choices that balance ease of use for product teams with reliability and correctness for data consumers, establishing patterns that scale the system as a foundational service for company-wide growth.
Requirements
- Extensive production experience with Go, with a proven track record of architecting and shipping large-scale services used by multiple teams.
- Deep expertise in infrastructure concerns including system reliability, performance optimization at scale, data quality, and observability; proven ability to set standards and mentor others in these areas.
- Deep expertise in instrumentation, analytics, data systems, or similar foundational infrastructure; demonstrated impact building systems that become critical to company operations.
- What you’ll bring Extensive production experience with Go, with a proven track record of architecting and shipping large-scale services used by multiple teams.
- Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .
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