Software Engineer III

Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in managing production incidents, debugging distributed systems, and implementing robust monitoring solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in programming and a keen interest in utilizing AI for enhancing system reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Drive production incidents as the commander or primary responder with 24x7 on-call availability.
• Debug distributed systems by correlating metrics, logs, and traces, and work comfortably with SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Design and maintain Datadog dashboards, monitors, APM, tracing, and log pipelines.
• Instrument services with Open Telemetry and design custom metrics, considering cardinality and cost.
• Engage actively with AI engineering assistants to apply AI in reliability work, such as alert triage, log summarization, and RCA drafting.
• Conduct capacity planning, load and performance testing, and ensure peak-event readiness.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering roles.
• Experience in payments, fintech, or other high-availability regulated domains.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Datadog for dashboards, monitors, APM, tracing, and log pipelines.
• Experience with Open Telemetry for instrumenting services and designing custom metrics.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and Python.

Preferred Skills:

• Practical use of AI engineering assistants.

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