Software Engineering Specialist

About the role

We are looking for a System Architect for Observability & Monitoring Platforms with 15+ years of experience who will own and drive the end-to-end architecture of a large-scale infrastructure monitoring and cloud orchestration platform. This role focuses on system architecture, technical strategy, and long-term platform evolution, enabling the platform to help metrics, logs, distributed tracing, and application performance monitoring at scale. 

This role combines judicious architectural ownership with hands-on validation through design reviews, code reviews, and targeted proof-of-concepts (POCs).

What you’ll be doing

Architecture Ownership & Vision 
•    Own the overall system architecture of the observability platform across ingestion, processing, storage, and query layers. 
•    Work closely with Enterprise Architect to align system architecture with long-term architectural vision and technical roadmap aligned with business and platform goals. 
•    Create and review high-level system architecture, data flows, integration patterns, and core technology choices. 
•    Act as the technical authority for complex architectural decisions, trade-offs, and create reviews. 

Platform & Domain Leadership 
•    Architect systems for infrastructure monitoring, metrics, logs, and distributed tracing at scale. 
•    Guide the evolution from infrastructure monitoring to a full observability platform including APM. 
•    Define architectural patterns for high-throughput telemetry ingestion, real-time processing, and query-at-scale. 
•    Ensure architectural consistency for multi-tenant, cloud-native distributed platforms. 

Standards, Governance & Enablement 
•    Establish and evolve architecture standards, design-principles, and best practices across teams. 
•    Identify architectural risks and proactively drive mitigation strategies. 
•    Enable teams through reference architectures, design-frameworks, and technical guidance. 
•    Support modernization initiatives including scalability, performance optimization, resilience, and cost efficiency. 

Hands-On Architectural Validation 
•    Perform code reviews of critical and performance-aware components. 
•    Build and guide proof-of-concepts (POCs) to formalize architectural decisions and reduce risk new technologies. 
•    Develop reference implementations to demonstrate architectural intent. 
•    Collaborate closely with senior engineers to troubleshoot complex system-level issues

Delivery Collaboration & Execution Enablement
•    Work closely with Software Engineering Managers to align architectural decisions with delivery and release plans.
•    Assist in breaking down large architectural initiatives into phased, incremental deliverables.
•    Identify architectural and technical risks early and proactively surface them to influence release planning.
•    Support release readiness by formalizing that architecture, scalability, and non‑functional requirements are addressed ahead of key milestones.

Essential Skills / Experience

•    Strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and application scalability
•    Experience creating microservice based, event driven architectures
•    Ability to make architectural trade offs involving scalability, reliability, performance, and cost
•    Demonstrate experience creating large scale, cloud based distributed platforms
•    Strong backend experience with Java (Spring Boot–based microservices)
•    Working knowledge of Python and/or Go for scripting, automation, and collectors
•    Ability to review and reason about performance critical backend code
•    Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring and observability concepts with hands on experience on follow:
o    Metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
o    Agent based and agentless monitoring models
o    Push / pull / subscription based data collection
•    Hands on or deep working knowledge of:
o    Metric data models and storage (e.g., VictoriaMetrics or equivalent)
o    Log aggregation and search platforms (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch)
•    Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, exporters, and custom collectors
•    Understanding of common monitoring tools and protocols (e.g., SNMP, Prometheus style systems)
•    Strong experience with:
o    Time series databases for metrics
o    Relational databases (PostgreSQL / MySQL) for metadata and control plane services
o    NoSQL / in memory stores (e.g., Redis) for high volume or low latency workloads
•    Working knowledge of search and analytics engines for logs and traces
•    Understanding of data modeling, query patterns, and data lifecycle management
•    Experience with Kafka class distributed messaging systems
•    Designing and operating event driven telemetry ingestion pipelines
•    Understanding of throughput, backpressure, and reliability concerns in streaming systems
•    Strong hands on exposure to Docker and Kubernetes based platforms
•    Infrastructure automation using:
o    Terraform (IaC)
o    Ansible (deployment and configuration automation)
•    CI/CD pipeline understanding and usage (e.g., GitLab CI or equivalent)
•    Familiarity with Grafana, Kibana, or similar visualization platforms
•    Awareness of frontend technologies such as Angular (architecture level understanding)
•    Experience with OpenStack, MAAS, Juju, or similar cloud/service orchestration platforms
•    Exposure to Canonical Observability Stack (COS) or equivalent platforms
•    Ability to perform code reviews for critical and performance responsive components
•    Experience building or guiding proof of concepts (POCs) to formalize architecture
•    Strong collaboration with Engineering Managers and senior engineers
•    Clear technical communication and mentoring capability

Desirable Skills / Experience

•    Experience with columnar / methodical databases (e.g., ClickHouse or equivalent)
•    Exposure to graph databases (Neo4j or similar) for relationship heavy domains
•    Experience with cloud native deployments in AWS, Azure, or GCP
•    Experience with secrets management (Vault, cert manager, etc.)
•    Understanding of secure ingestion pipelines, RBAC, and tenant isolation
•    Awareness of compliance and security considerations in telemetry platforms
•    Exposure to Telecom OSS / large scale infrastructure observability platforms
•    Familiarity with monitoring agents and collectors (e.g., NRPE, Filebeat, Telegraf)

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