Chronosphere is hiring a
Member of Technical Staff - Tracing

Summary

The job description is for a role in the tracing team at Chronosphere, a remote startup providing an observability platform. The role involves contributing to product direction, partnering with sister teams, shaping architecture, designing and implementing high-volume services, refining software build and release processes, and more. The ideal candidate has expertise in building and operating highly available systems at scale, is a strong leader, and has excellent skills in system-level languages like Go or C++.

Requirements

• The ability to operate independently and own highly complex problems from inception to delivery
• The ability to partner effectively with cross-functional partners e.g. product, design, technical writing
• A bias to action, strong ownership, and ability to break down complex product goals into smaller iterative milestones for frequent delivery
• The inclination to lead, weigh trade-offs, mitigate risks, make decisions, and unblock others
• Expertise in building and operating highly available systems at scale and with high standards for code quality and design
• Excellent skills in a system-level language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust. Knowing a specific language isn’t important; what matters is that you’ve become fluent in one by spending a lot of time on the types of projects where these languages are used
• The willingness to coach and mentor other engineers
• A collaborative working style

Responsibilities

• Contribute to product direction and engineering goals for the team
• Partner and plan work with sister teams to meet our shared goals
• Shape our architecture for the short term and long term to meet our product and reliability requirements
• Design, implement, and operate high-volume services in Go on top of Kubernetes/GCP/AWS/Clickhouse
• Refine the way we build and release software by contributing to building systems, test frameworks, deployment tools, and monitoring
• Contribute to our team rituals and processes

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage
• Unlimited Vacation Time
• Competitive Salary
• Stock Options