Senior Software Engineer II, Observability

3 hours, 56 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Wave

Wave

Wave is a small business software company that offers a suite of money management tools including invoicing, accounting, credit card processing, payroll, receipt scanning, and personal finance tools. With 2.5 million customers worldwide, Wave provides ...

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2010
$80M raised

Description

  • Design and maintain Python tooling and Terraform modules that standardize Datadog configuration across services.
  • Codify monitors, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting patterns to eliminate manual observability setup.
  • Define and implement observability blueprints that integrate metrics, logs, and traces into the development lifecycle.
  • Own critical parts of the Datadog platform configuration and improve data quality, signal-to-noise ratio, and alert reliability.
  • Partner with teams to adopt telemetry effectively while managing ingestion and alerting costs.
  • Upgrade and maintain tracers, agents, and shared observability libraries in a backward-compatible way.
  • Collaborate with Platform and Infrastructure teams to embed monitoring into Kafka, gRPC, Kubernetes, AWS-managed services, and other systems.
  • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Python code and Terraform modules.
  • Participate in architecture and design reviews and provide feedback in code reviews.
  • Lead projects end-to-end from design and implementation through production rollout and support.

Requirements

  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in application development, platform engineering, or developer tooling.
  • High proficiency in Python and solid experience with Terraform.
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog for metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, monitors, and alerts.
  • Experience with containerized and cloud-native environments such as Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS, gRPC, or Lambda.
  • Proven ability to independently drive medium-to-large initiatives from design to delivery.
  • Strong understanding of modern web applications and distributed systems.
  • Knowledge of how observability applies to high-throughput, highly available systems.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfortable partnering with product, platform, and infrastructure teams.

Benefits

  • $160,000 - $179,000 annual salary.
  • Bonus structure.
  • Employer-paid benefits plan.
  • Health and wellness flex account.
  • Professional development account.
  • Wellness days.
  • Holiday shutdown.
  • Wave Days, including extra vacation days in the summer.
  • Get A-Wave Program: work from anywhere in the world up to 90 days.

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