Observe is a SaaS observability platform that enables Engineering and DevOps teams to troubleshoot modern distributed applications 10x faster. The Runtime team needs to improve the performance of their data transformation pipelines and user query execution paths which process petabytes of data daily and execute over 200 million queries on Snowflake each day.
Requirements
- 3+ years of industry experience building distributed systems
- Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and optimizing backend infrastructure features
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve database performance issues
- Ability to rapidly onboard to complex systems and drive meaningful improvements
- Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses
- Prior work on observability platforms
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve existing advanced execution features like token indices
- Work on automated adjustments of system parameters to reduce query execution times and costs
- Analyze millions of queries to understand shortcomings in our performance, propose improvements, and drive their implementation
- Partner with our cloud service provider Snowflake on improving our performance by troubleshooting issues with their support but also by by discussing feature requests with their product managers
- Investigate and resolve customer-reported query issues
Other
- Customer-focused mindset with the ability to translate user needs into technical solutions
- Partner with our engineering contacts in Snowflake and are responsible to clearly communicate our asks to internal as well as external stakeholders.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science with a focus on databases
