Staff Observability Backend Engineer

Lead Affrim’s observability platform remotely in Canada, combining backend architecture with telemetry expertise across high-volume distributed systems.

As Staff Software Engineer and technical lead, you will shape observability strategy while remaining hands-on. The platform processes 200+ TB daily across hundreds of services and 80+ Kubernetes clusters. Your work will advance wide events, log sampling, and instrumentation for agentic development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own telemetry pipeline architecture, reliability, performance, and cost
• Design log sampling strategies preserving incident investigation signals
• Shape observability practices for AI coding agents and reviews
• Define technical strategy and lead cross-functional projects
• Mentor six engineers through feedback, guidance, and example

Requirements:

• 8+ years designing and launching backend systems at scale
• Python or Kotlin experience developing distributed backend systems
• AWS, MySQL, Flink, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, or Terraform
• Experience operating high-volume metrics, logs, or traces
• Strong communication across global engineering teams

Bring scalable backend engineering, observability judgment, and technical leadership to Affrim’s remote Canada platform team.

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