Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Overview

Senior Software Engineer for Roku’s Observability team, working on core observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) and data pipelines/storage for high-throughput performance.

What you'll do

• Extend and integrate open-source observability systems.
• Overhaul core components (storage layers, query paths) to improve scalability at scale.
• Build services to improve performance, usability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement pre-aggregation, downsampling, and sampling to reduce load and speed up queries.
• Create developer-facing capabilities for metrics, logs, and traces usage, data quality, and cost management.
• Automate onboarding, dashboards, alerting, and tracing.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to integrate observability into a cloud-native stack.

What you'll need

• 8+ years in software engineering.
• 4+ years of Go/Golang experience.
• Experience with or strong interest in observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, Clickhouse).
• Experience with or strong interest in standards (OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, OpenMetrics).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and data models.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Details

• Hybrid work: teams generally work in the office Monday–Thursday; Fridays are generally flexible for remote work except when specific roles require five days in office (per assigned office location/role).