Backend Engineer, Metrics - Software Delivery & Data Management Firm
Role summary
This Backend Engineer role focuses on building the metrics and telemetry backbone for an observability and analytics platform. The engineer will design and implement ingestion, storage, and query paths for high-cardinality, high-throughput time-series data, addressing challenges like backpressure, durability, cardinality, and cost efficiency. Key responsibilities include developing distributed ingestion pipelines, managing time-series data storage and retention, exposing query APIs, and integrating with tracing and logging systems. The role requires 5+ years of experience in backend/distributed systems and proficiency in languages like Go, Java, or Python, along with streaming technologies such as Kafka or Pulsar, and experience with TSDB/OLAP stores.
Backend Engineer — Metrics Platform
About The Role
Build the metrics and telemetry backbone that powers observability and analytics. You’ll design ingestion, storage, and query paths for high-cardinality, high-throughput time-series data.
What You’ll Do
- Design distributed ingestion pipelines with backpressure and durability.
- Implement time-series storage, retention, downsampling, and compaction.
- Expose query/search APIs for dashboards, alerts, and analytics.
- Tackle cardinality and cost efficiency at scale.
- Integrate with tracing/logging to deliver unified observability.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years in backend/distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Go/Java/Python and streaming (Kafka, Pulsar).
- Experience with TSDB/OLAP stores (Prometheus, ClickHouse, M3, Cortex, InfluxDB).
- Strong data modeling and performance tuning skills.
About Andiamo
Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
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