Software Engineer - Observability

Posted 14 Days Ago
Palo Alto, CA
120K-226K Annually
1-3 Years Experience
Social Media • Software
We serve the public conversation. We believe real change starts with conversation.
The Role
As a Software Engineer on the Observability team, you'll design, implement, and operate scalable observability infrastructure, ensuring performance and reliability while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams. Your work will help measure and optimize various metrics and alerts, contributing to the uptime of X's critical systems.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Role: Software Engineer - Observability [All Levels]
Location: Palo Alto, Seattle [US] or London [UK]
Salary Range: $120,000 to $226,000 [US] + Equity

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Who we are:

X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.

What you'll do:

Observability team design, build and operate a highly scalable, robust, and real-time observability infrastructure which allows X’s engineering teams to measure, visualize, alarm, investigate, and optimize all manner of issues related to X’s platform, infrastructure, and services. Our systems collect and process billions of metrics and evaluate millions of alerts per minute in real-time. To do so, we leverage a number of internally developed services that have been purpose-built to meet our demanding scale, latency, and reliability requirements. We are mission critical to X so can’t afford any downtime. Operating our own systems at hyper growth levels is a rewarding challenge, it is what helps make us great. We are a tight knit and passionate team that values fast pace, innovation, creativity, and a strong commitment to our mission. Come help us keep X online by providing metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting for all hardware and software services at X.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

  • Architecting and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient systems for Observability at X (metrics, logging, tracing)

  • Collaborating with other X engineering teams to develop new features and integrations with X internal services and frameworks

  • Writing clean, efficient, maintainable, and well-documented code

  • Ensuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of our backend systems

  • Troubleshooting and debugging

  • Mentoring junior engineers, multiply the effectiveness of the team by providing code and design reviews, setting the bar for quality high, and defining team’s software development best practices

  • Staying informed about industry trends and emerging technologies in the Observability space

Who you are

We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact. The ideal candidate will have:

  • 2+ years of professional software development experience 

  • Strong computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures background

  • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Scala, Java, C++)

  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for software development life cycles

  • Experience with business-critical distributed large-scale systems

  • Strong desire for learning and growth

  • Enjoy interacting with and helping internal customers

Top Skills

C++
Java
Scala
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

We serve the public conversation. We believe real change starts with conversation. That’s why it matters to us that people have a free and safe space to talk. We put people first. Be you, really. That’s how we build trust. Together we’re creating a culture that’s supportive, respectful, and a pretty cool vibe. Sure, we’re not perfect, we’re people. But we’re open and honest about who we are and what we do.

Why Work With Us

Life’s not about a job, it’s about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we’ll do what’s right (not what’s easy) to serve the public conversation.

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