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Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer - Observability

Twitter, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer - Observability

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become a trusted global digital public square, committed to minimal censorship within legal boundaries. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!Location:

San Francisco or SeattleSalary Range:

$120,000 to $226,000Who we are:X serves our community of users and customers by working tirelessly to preserve free expression and choice, create limitless interactivity, and create a marketplace that enables the economic success of all its participants.What you'll do:The Observability team designs, builds, and operates a highly scalable, robust, and real-time observability infrastructure which allows X’s engineering teams to measure, visualize, alarm, investigate, and optimize all manner of issues related to X’s platform, infrastructure, and services. Our systems collect and process billions of metrics and evaluate millions of alerts per minute in real-time. To do so, we leverage a number of internally developed services that have been purpose-built to meet our demanding scale, latency, and reliability requirements. We are mission critical to X so can’t afford any downtime. Operating our own systems at hyper growth levels is a rewarding challenge, it is what helps make us great. We are a tight-knit and passionate team that values fast pace, innovation, creativity, and a strong commitment to our mission. Come help us keep X online by providing metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting for all hardware and software services at X.Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:Architecting and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient systems for Observability at X (metrics, logging, tracing)Collaborating with other X engineering teams to develop new features and integrations with X internal services and frameworksWriting clean, efficient, maintainable, and well-documented codeEnsuring the performance, reliability, and scalability of our backend systemsTroubleshooting and debuggingMentoring junior engineers, multiplying the effectiveness of the team by providing code and design reviews, setting the bar for quality high, and defining the team’s software development best practicesStaying informed about industry trends and emerging technologies in the Observability spaceWho you are:We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact. The ideal candidate will have:4+ years of professional software development experienceStrong computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures backgroundProficiency in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Scala, Java, C++)Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for software development life cyclesExperience with business-critical distributed large-scale systemsStrong desire for learning and growthEnjoy interacting with and helping internal customersIf you thrive in a dynamic, high-growth tech environment and relish the opportunity to collaborate with passionate, driven over-achievers, your career with us here at X will be both exhilarating and fulfilling!

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