Backend Engineer, Metrics - Software Delivery & Data Management Firm
Role summary
Seeking a Backend Engineer to build the metrics and telemetry backbone for an observability and analytics platform. This role involves designing and implementing ingestion, storage, and query paths for high-cardinality, high-throughput time-series data. Responsibilities include tackling scalability challenges like cardinality and cost efficiency, ensuring data durability and backpressure in distributed pipelines, and integrating with tracing and logging systems for unified observability. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in backend/distributed systems, proficiency in Go, Java, or Python, and experience with streaming technologies like Kafka or Pulsar, and time-series databases such as Prometheus or ClickHouse.
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
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