Principal Software Engineer – Sensor, Telemetry, Observability

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Oregon.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the architecture and technical strategy for an integrated telemetry and observability platform, ranging from endpoint collection SDK to cloud ingestion, decoding, and analytics.

• Design telemetry collection methods that are crash-resilient, resource-efficient, prioritize effectively, and are sensitive to performance requirements.

• Lead initiatives in structured logging and data governance, ensuring type safety, PII auditability, and compliance with privacy regulations.

• Advance the platform's capabilities while maintaining stability for existing users.

• Act as the primary technical authority for telemetry across various teams.

• Manage designs from initial concept through to deployed code across on-endpoint and in-cloud, cross-platform deliverables.

• Lead, mentor, and elevate the technical standards within a distributed engineering team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on experience in architecting large-scale telemetry, observability, or crash-reporting platforms end-to-end, from agent SDK to cloud ingestion and analytics within production environments.

• Proficient in low-level and systems engineering using C/C++.

• Experience with structured logging, telemetry data governance, and handling privacy/PII at scale.

• Proven track record of shipping and evolving platforms without disrupting existing consumers.

• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

• Strong debugging skills addressing crashes, memory problems, contention, and system performance issues.

• Capacity to lead, mentor, and collaborate effectively within a distributed team.

• Demonstrated experience in leveraging AI technologies to improve decision-making, streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and drive business results.

• Expertise in developing scalable, lightweight, high-performance systems and OS internals across multiple platforms.

• Familiarity with OS-level performance and diagnostic instrumentation, including ETW and PMU/hardware telemetry.

• Knowledge of data lake and analytics stacks, such as KQL, SQL, and Snowflake.

• Experience with Go-based cloud services.

• Understanding of endpoint security domains.

• Comfortable working in an Agile team with frequent delivery cycles.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards as a market leader.

• Comprehensive wellness programs addressing both physical and mental health.

• Generous vacation and holiday policies to ensure proper rest and recharge.

• Paid parental and adoption leave benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development available to all employees, regardless of role or level.

• Employee Networks, neighborhood groups, and volunteer initiatives to foster community connections.

• A vibrant office culture complemented by world-class amenities.

• Performance bonuses.

• Equity grants.

• Health insurance coverage.

• 401k retirement plan.

• Paid time off.