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Senior Software Engineer(Distributed Systems)
$160K–$285K
USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years software development engineering; 4+ years focused on complex distributed systems; 5+ years with at least two listed programming languages.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience; a Master’s degree is strongly preferred.
About the job
Own the design and implementation of distributed tracing platform components, scaling observability data pipelines and extending tracing to LLM and agent workflows.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate core distributed tracing components and big-data pipelines at multi-petabyte scale.
- Optimize low-latency infrastructure and support high-throughput ingestion and sub-second queries.
- Extend tracing to LLM and agent workflows, providing visibility into execution, tool calls, and prompt/response chains.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software development engineering experience.
- 4+ years designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems, including high availability and fault tolerance.
- 5+ years with at least two of Java, Go, Scala, or Python, including production distributed-systems code.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, or a related field.
Pay
$190,100 USD - $285,100 USD (base salary); $160,100 USD - $285,100 USD (base salary)
Tools
ClickHouse, Grafana Tempo, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Iceberg, S3, LangSmith
AI focus
Extend distributed tracing to LLM and agentic workflows using LangSmith and LangChain, enabling observability of agent execution, tool calls, and prompt/response chains.
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