Intuit
Staff Software Engineer - Observability
$188K–$274K
San Diego, California +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Mountain View, California - Experience
- 8-10+ years in software engineering, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, logging/data pipelines, or observability platforms.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree (BE/BTech/MS/MTech) in Computer Science or related field required.
About the job
Designs and leads Intuit’s high-scale logging and observability platform across on-premise and public cloud deployments, including pipelines, automation, and developer-facing platform capabilities.
What you'll do
- Architect and evolve the logging system from edge log generation through ingestion, routing, and storage, while optimizing pipeline cost and volume.
- Develop and modernize logging components, collection agents, onboarding tools, and automation across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes environments.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration; build platform health dashboards, metrics, and alerting.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise building and operating high-throughput data pipelines at multi-TB/PB daily scale.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and sidecar/daemonset architectures.
- Proficiency with public cloud platforms, and experience with Splunk or equivalent observability platforms at scale.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or similar languages; demonstrated architecture leadership for mission-critical, high-availability systems.
Pay
Southern, CA: $188,500 - $255,000 USD base salary; Mountain View, CA $202,500- $274,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Fluent Bit, Splunk, Go, Java, Python
AI focus
Leverages MCP Server capabilities for AI-assisted authoring, automation, and operational tooling across the observability platform.
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