Staff Software Engineer Observability (remote)

(Fully remote, async-first, DevOps SaaS, 32-40h/week, time zones: UTC-3 to UTC+3)

Join Checkly, a Gartner Cool Vendor, as Staff Engineer Observability and be at the forefront of the Monitoring as Code (MaC) movement. We're a remote-first startup on a mission to enable developers to detect and resolve issues 10x faster with code-first synthetic monitoring enriched with OTEL Tracing. Join a high productivity, no meeting, async first engineering team with multiple daily on demand deploys and a strong SRE culture.

Thousands of developers are using Checkly today, including those at 1Password, Autodesk, AutoTrader, CrowdStrike, Deno, Render, Sentry, and Vercel.

We care about building a team where people of all backgrounds are encouraged to do their best work. To achieve this we built a flexible, remote-first and async-first startup environment with inclusive benefits.

What you'll do

We’re looking for an experienced Engineer to join us building high reliability, scalable and delightful software that we love as much as our users. Overcome difficult challenges with your strong background in distributed systems architecture, high scale cloud backends and Clickhouse to help us do what we love most: building the best monitoring platform for developers.

Build high scale OTEL Backend based on Clickhouse. You will be hands-on in our stack, to build OTEL Tracing combined with Synthetic Monitoring as part of a small but ambitious engineering team.

What you should have

We know people come with various knowledge and experience, so a combination of some, any or all of the points below will contribute to your success.

• Background of technical leadership driving engineering excellence

• Experience in building, scaling or managing production web services

• Experience with production deployments in the cloud (especially AWS)

• Deep working experience with AWS, Clickhouse, Postgres and Node.js

• First-hand experience with SRE practices: SLOs/SLAs, modern incident management, etc.

• Know how to communicate with coworkers and customers in English.

• Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment, while you also enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others.

• Located in UTC-3 to UTC+3.

What we offer

• Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are. (more info below)

• Low meeting, high productivity culture

• Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where you can have a real impact

• Fully remote, flexible work hours, async-first and transparent culture

• Stock options

• 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays

• Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,000 learning & visiting budget

• Co-working budget or home office setup

• Company retreats

• Employment & contractor options

Find out more here.

What we pay

Fair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location.

For this role, the range is

• €122k - €135k for someone in a similar cost of market as UK, Germany etc.

• €109k - €122k for someone in a similar cost of market as Spain, Poland, Argentina, Ukraine etc.

Apply

If this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women/non-binary people will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you!

We're all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. That's why we've put together our hiring playbook. There you'll find a sneak peek of who we are and what you can expect in our hiring process. We recently also open-sourced our employee handbook!