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Founding Backend Engineer
Remote
Full-time
backend
Build the root system of our telemetry platform. Just as roots support and nourish plants, you'll create robust API services and data pipelines that support our growing ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the root systems of our platform—designing scalable, efficient backend services in Go and Rust
- Collaborate closely with our founders and product team to architect solutions that allow customers to harvest insights from massive volumes of telemetry data
- Help us grow and care for our OpenTelemetry-native architecture, building tools that are composable, resilient, and vendor-neutral
- Contribute to open-source projects, especially those in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, planting seeds of value for the community
Requirements
- Strong experience with Go and/or Rust, with a focus on systems programming, distributed systems, or backend infrastructure
- Familiarity with telemetry systems, streaming data, or observability pipelines
- Comfort working with protocols like OTLP, gRPC, HTTP, and message queues (NATS, Kafka, etc)
- An interest in resource efficiency: you care about runtime performance, memory footprint, and reducing carbon costs
- A collaborative, open mindset and willingness to dig deep into complex problems
- Rooted in either Latin America or Europe
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with observability data formats, distributed systems, and the OpenTelemetry ecosystem
- Experience with B2B SaaS products, especially developer tools
- Passion for open-source communities, contributing to shared knowledge and collaborative growth
- Enthusiasm for public speaking, helping others cultivate their understanding of observability at international conferences