Airwallex
Senior Software Engineer, Observability
$158K–$245K
US - Seattle · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate scalable observability platforms and tools that help engineering teams monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the reliability of distributed systems.
What you'll do
- Build observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, and service health.
- Set observability standards and improve incident detection, diagnosis, response, and self-service adoption.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve observability system reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Proficiency in at least one backend language, such as Go, Java, Python, or Kotlin.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Experience with observability technologies and cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes, containers, and public cloud platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience building observability or internal developer platforms used by multiple teams.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Pay
$158K – $245K USD base salary
Tools
Go, Java, Python, Kotlin, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry
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