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Software Engineer: Backend API Team

Observe, Inc.

$141,000 - $174,000
Sep 3, 2025
San Mateo, CA, US
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Observe is looking to solve the problem of fragmented tooling and fragile dashboards in modern distributed applications, making observability easier, faster, and less expensive for businesses.

Requirements

  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • A solid understanding of database fundamentals and SaaS application architecture
  • Experience building and deploying scalable, secure and performant APIs
  • Proficiency with distributed systems, SOAs, and performance measurement and optimization
  • Ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application
  • Proficiency with Golang, Kubernetes, GraphQL, and Postgres
  • Experience with temporal-relational query language, OPAL

Responsibilities

  • Build out the API and application platform that drives the rest of the Observe product
  • Develop GraphQL APIs that can be easily consumed by our user interface or through terraform
  • Design shared infrastructure components that optimize for the developer experience, scalability, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability
  • Write robust unit tests that are quick, reliable, and allow our team to continuously deploy to our kubernetes service infrastructure
  • Be a strong contributor to the product vision and team planning
  • Migrating our metadata processing layer to in-RAM processing with database persistent backing
  • Inventing a new API to efficiently serve slices of large datasets to browser

Other

  • BSCS degree or equivalent experience
  • A passion for user-centric product development and end-user performance
  • Attention to developer experience and productivity
  • Interest in enterprise analytics
  • Startup or growth-stage experience