Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation – Golang

Role Overview

• Design, build, and maintain a unified Go-based instrumentation service that consolidates instrumentation across the entire company, eliminating the need for multiple language-specific SDKs while maintaining reliability and performance.
• Manage the handling of the sending, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, ensuring data integrity that directly impacts the company's key prioritization and usage billing accuracy.
• Train and assist product development teams across the company on how to instrument their features using the unified service, providing documentation, guidance, and technical help.
• Manage on-call duties during working hours for systems that handle usage billing and instrumentation, ensuring system reliability and quick response to critical issues.
• Work across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to identify requirements and deliver solutions that serve multiple stakeholders.
• Make key architectural decisions that balance the needs of product teams (who need ease of use) with data consumers (who need reliability and correctness), ensuring the system serves as a foundational service for the company.

Requirements

• Proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services.
• Strong backend development experience, with the ability to design scalable, reliable systems serving internal and external customers.
• Experience with infrastructure concerns such as system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability.
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST, gRPC, or similar) that other teams integrate with.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders across team boundaries.
• Experience with instrumentation, analytics, data systems, or similar foundational infrastructure in application environments such as Ruby on Rails or comparable stacks.

Tech Stack

• GRPC
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Go

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support