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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring an Observability Engineering Manager who will lead the development of the distributed tracing or service mesh products as part of our Observability group.

Engineering managers at Canonical are always coders who are able to review and lead both architecture and code. They should also be astute judges of character, and comfortable setting expectations and holding colleagues accountable to them.

We are building an observability stack that is easy to deploy and operate on Kubernetes. This is part of a broader initiative to deliver the world's best suite of open source tools, where we provide deep integration and automation for best-of-breed open source offerings that cover metrics, logging, telemetry, alerting, tracing and profiling. Our goal is to make observability tools integral and pervasive across software practices .

Our implementation of Kubernetes operators is opinionated, resilient, and scalable, providing deep insights out of the box. The user experience is polished and seamless for the end-users, and its administrators will enjoy smooth, lightweight Day 1 and Day 2 operations. We are excited to be improving the state of the art for open-source observability.

This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Kubernetes, and Observability. Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.

As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, you must be technically strong, but your main responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You will develop and review code as a leader, but know that the best way to improve the product is to ensure that the whole team is focused, productive and unblocked. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do meaningful work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community. You will also be expected to be a positive influence on culture, facilitate technical delivery, and regularly reflect with your team on strategy and execution. You will collaborate closely with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects, producing an engineering roadmap with ambitious and achievable goals.

We expect Engineering Managers to be fluent in the programming language, architecture, and components that their team uses. Code reviews and architectural leadership are part of the job. The commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality and performance optimisation is as important, as is the requirement for fair and clear management, and the obligation to ensure a high-performing team.

Location: This role can be home based in the EMEA or Americas regions.

The role entails

• Manage a distributed team of engineers and its observability portfolio
• Organize and lead the teams processes in order to help it achieve its objectives
• Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members
• Identify and measure team health indicators
• Interact with a vibrant community
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Attend conferences to represent Canonical and its Observability Stack
  
  

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• A proven track record of professional experience of software delivery
• Professional software development experience, preferably with a track record in open source
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
  
  

• Experience as an engineering manager, with a track record of building great, high performance teams
• Professional Python development experience
• A working knowledge of Go
• Open source contribution experience
• Interest and experience with container technologies
• A proven understanding of the importance of observability and monitoring for keeping software running smoothly
• Experience designing and implementing observability solutions
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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Job Description

We are in need of 3 Platform Engineers to build and operationalize observability capabilities across the SIEM ecosystem. These resources will lead efforts in designing integrated monitoring solutions for tools like Cribl, Vector, Splunk, Snowflake, ADX, and Log Analytics. Their work will ensure continuous visibility into system health, enabling proactive fault detection and performance management. These resources will leverage either or both Grafana and PowerBI for dashboarding.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy:

Skills and Requirements

• Lead the architecture and implementation of comprehensive observability solutions across the SIEM stack, including fault detection and system health metrics.

 • Create advanced, scalable dashboards and alerting systems tailored for complex, multi-source telemetry data environments.

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Software Engineer, Observability

Seattle, Washington, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Aug 21, 2025

Role Number: 200600978-3337

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is building the next generation of foundational tools that empower software developers at Apple to build products that our customers love. The Observability team within ASE is a fast moving, highly skilled team this is designing and building a suite of platforms and services that help Apple engineers observe and get insights into their systems.

If the thought of working with petabytes of data interests you, this is the place to be. Our systems must scale globally, stay highly available, and “just work”, while supporting some of the largest services in world. That’s a tall order, and we’re looking to add more talented and passionate engineers who love challenges. If you’d love to join this amazing team, we’d love to hear from you.

Description

Your responsibilities will include :

Requirement gathering across cross functional teams

• Developing practical, fault-tolerant high-performance distributed systems.

• Leading and participating in technical design discussions across cross functional teams. Gain in-depth understanding of the domain and come up with creative ideas in the domain.

• Willingness to lead an independent research in the field of work.

• Mentor other engineers in the team.

You will have the courage and experience to be frank and ambitious but humble enough to listen to others. We want your thoughts on how we can move faster, be more creative, and deliver tools and ideas to empower developers around the world. We expect you to challenge the status quo, to care about the details, the end user, and how it all comes together.

We are looking for enthusiastic developers to join as a member of this collaborative and friendly team. You should be someone with ideas and passion for software delivered as a service to maximize reuse, efficiency, and simplicity. Your work will impact millions of Apple users and is necessary to the success of some of the most visible current and future features.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in CS or equivalent

• 5+ years of industry experience

• Experience with Java

• Experience with designing, implementing and supporting highly scalable infrastructure services

• Deep understanding and work experience in distributed systems

• Deep understanding of core CS concepts including data structures, algorithms and concurrent programming

• Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities

• Great communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana

• Experience building Observability platforms is preferred

• Experience designing and using columnar storage

• Familiarity with time series database internals

• Passion for developing and testing clear, robust code

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies and frameworks.

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $258,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more about Apple Benefits. (

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position.These include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at .

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here .

As an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

As a member of the Network Observability team, you will design and manage telemetry pipelines, build authoritative data systems, and develop data models and APIs that power analytics and automation. Your work ensures the team has real-time visibility into network performance through platforms like Grafana, ClickHouse, and DOMO/GreenField. You create reliable sources of truth for topology and configuration, seamlessly integrating with CMDBs and automation tools. By engineering robust ETL pipelines and enabling closed-loop automation, you empower the team to make data-driven decisions, respond faster to incidents, and plan effectively for future capacity needs.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, youll take the lead as you
Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs. With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met. Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts. Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:
4 year degree or equivalent experience
1+ years of software development experience
Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects
Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language
Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them.
Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Preferred Skillsets:

Demonstrates proficiency in building and maintaining observability systems

Understands network technology fundamentals

Understands hardware and operating systems

Benefits Eligibility

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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CoreWeave is the AI Hyperscaler™, delivering a cloud platform of cutting edge services powering the next wave of AI. Our technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with the most performant, efficient and resilient solutions for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers covering every region of the US and across Europe. CoreWeave was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies of 2024.

As the leader in the industry, we thrive in an environment where adaptability and resilience are key. Our culture offers career-defining opportunities for those who excel amid change and challenge. If you're someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and is eager to make a significant impact, CoreWeave is the place for you. Join us, and be part of a team solving some of the most exciting challenges in the industry.

CoreWeave powers the creation and delivery of the intelligence that drives innovation.

About this Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Principal Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and operations of our Observability product. In this role, you will help shape the vision and direction on how customers monitor, troubleshoot and run their AI workloads effectively, at scale. You will have direct access to customers and work closely with engineering stakeholders across multiple teams to advance the development of our unified Observability experience across CoreWeave products.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the strategy and implementation for Observability, ensuring alignment with business goals and performance objectives.
• Design and implement advanced solutions, including low-latency, high-scale Observability pipelines across all products.
• Build solutions that offer insights to customers for rapid troubleshooting of their AI workloads.
• Champion initiatives to improve the reliability, durability, and self-healing capabilities of Observability metrics, and assume operational responsibilities.
• Help shape customer experience by promoting unparalleled visibility into our systems' performance and reliability with customer facing metrics and dashboards.
• Analyze telemetry for production systems to identify opportunities for improvement in performance and reliability.
• Develop operational review practices for storage engineering to assess performance against targets and iterating on those targets.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights on storage industry trends and advocating for investments in storage technologies.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage solutions align with evolving project requirements and technical architecture.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in product engineering, fostering a customer-focused approach to systems design and technical excellence.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and scale.
• Proven experience leading storage product engineering projects and building products to address customer needs.
• Proficiency in one or more programming (e.g. Go, C, Rust).
• Good understanding of distributed observability systems such as ClickHouse for telemetry at scale.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing infrastructure using Kubernetes, scalable architectures, and automation.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize problem statements from interactions with customers and design solutions given ambiguous requirements.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey storage engineering strategies and practices to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Prior experience with building Observability solutions is a plus.

The base salary range for this role is $206,000 to $303,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we've posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

Our Workplace

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration

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As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) , CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact:

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. or , (ii) U.S. lawful permanent (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.

• Help build a great product that improves productivity of engineers across the globe by several orders of magnitude
• Design and build observability solutions for collection, delivery, analysis, and visualization of metrics, logs, and traces
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and customer support to instrument and implement observability into our products and internal apps
• Build orchestration and automation tooling around off-the-shelf solutions (e.g. Datadog, Grafana), as well as build custom solutions that meet our unique needs
• Be involved in the development of scalable, distributed software systems that support globally distributed customer base
• Coach and mentor other SWE; Provide leadership in iteratively defining & refining development processes as the team grows

• 3+ years of related professional experience, 2+ years working on a mission critical platform with high-availability requirements
• Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and observability (e.g. Datadog, Stackdriver, Wavefront, Grafana) stacks
• A strong understanding of system availability, resiliency, and recoverability
• Strong organizational skills with high attention-to-detail and able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to thrive in a high-energy, high-growth, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Willing to learn new skills and implement new technologies

• Familiarity with TypeScript and Node.js backend development
• Familiarity with React frontend web development
• Experience with observability platforms and tools like Datadog, Grafana, etc.

The pay range is $73,200.00 - $131,700.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at .

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here ( .

As an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

As a member of the Network Observability team, you will design and manage telemetry pipelines, build authoritative data systems, and develop data models and APIs that power analytics and automation. Your work ensures the team has real-time visibility into network performance through platforms like Grafana, ClickHouse, and DOMO/GreenField. You create reliable sources of truth for topology and configuration, seamlessly integrating with CMDBs and automation tools. By engineering robust ETL pipelines and enabling closed-loop automation, you empower the team to make data-driven decisions, respond faster to incidents, and plan effectively for future capacity needs.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs. With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met. Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts. Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• 1+ years of software development experience

• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies

• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects

• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge

• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language

• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain

• Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them.

• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Preferred Skillsets:

• Demonstrates proficiency in building and maintaining observability systems

• Understands network technology fundamentals

• Understands hardware and operating systems

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

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In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to

Join the engineering teams that bring OpenAI's ideas safely to the world!

The Applied Engineering team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI's technology to consumers and businesses. We seek to learn from deployment and distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. Safety is more important to us than unfettered growth.

About the Role

We're building the observability product for OpenAI-from scalable infrastructure to a rich, AI-powered UI. Our systems ingest over petabytes of logs and billions of time series metrics across our fleet. We're now layering intelligence on top-think agents that summarize SEVs, auto-generate dashboards, or help engineers debug through notebook-like UIs.

We're hiring software engineers across the stack-infra, backend, and product. You'll join a small, gritty team building both foundational infra and novel internal tools to make OpenAI's production systems reliable, performant, and observable.

What You'll Do

• Own core observability infrastructure, including distributed logging, time series, and trace storage

• Build AI-native tools that help engineers detect, understand, and resolve issues autonomously.

• Contribute to UI experiences like dashboards, notebooking, or interactive debugging

• Collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, user ops, and other teams across the company to build the next generation observability product

You Might Be a Fit If You:

• Have operated large-scale distributed systems in production. ( especially logging systems or some other time series databases)

• Thrive in ambiguous environments and roll up your sleeves to solve unscoped problems.

• Have full-stack chops or product sensibilities-you're excited to build real tools people use.

• Have strong fundamentals in systems, networking, and cloud infra (Kubernetes, AWS, etc).

• Bonus: built or contributed to observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc).

Why This Team

• We're both an infra and product team-building a real AI application for internal use.

• Your work will directly power the reliability of GPT-based products at massive scale.

• You'll help define what "AI-powered observability" looks like at one of the world's most advanced AI labs.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation Range: $255K - $405K

• 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 our internal platforms.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of the observability stack end-to-end.

• Production-level proficiency in Go, Rust, Scala, or a 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.

• We hire engineers in Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Our team usually works from the office 5 days a week but allow work-from-home days when required. Candidates who join in San Francisco must make it to Palo Alto at least twice a week.

1. Practical coding assessment in a language of your choice.
2. Systems design hands-on: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session.
3. Project deep-dive: Present and answer questions about exceptional work that you've done.
4. Meet and greet with the wider team.