Software Engineer, Observability
at Dialpad
Bengaluru, India
About Dialpad
Ai that means business
Dialpad pioneered the first Ai-powered customer communications platform that now serves as the secure foundation for all Dialpad products. By bringing all conversations together in one place, businesses of all sizes in any industry can instantly unlock the power of Ai to unite people, automate tasks, streamline workflows, collect data-driven insights, and turn conversations into opportunities that drive growth. Supported by notable investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and ICONIQ, Dialpad is a dynamic force in AI technology with a rapidly expanding presence. Visit dialpad.com to learn more.
About the team
Dialpad’s Observability Team takes charge of visibility across our entire system by building an observability platform that can be relied upon and plays an essential role within Dialpad Engineering. This team collaborates closely with the other engineering teams to constantly improve the reliability and performance of the systems that provide visibility into the various parts of the Dialpad stack.
Your role
As a Software Engineer in Observability, you’ll be responsible for our metrics and log collection platform. You’ll work closely with other Infrastructure engineers to determine resource usage and requirements. You’ll also help create tooling, libraries, and documentation that enables other engineers to instrument their own projects. In addition, you’ll keep our team aware of trends in the larger observability/monitoring industry.
This position reports to our Engineering Manager, Observability and has the opportunity to be based in our Bangalore, India or Buenos Aires, Argentina offices.
What you’ll do
- Develop and improve instrumentation for monitoring and logging the health and availability of services
- Develop and maintain the observability stack within Dialpad engineering
- Define best practices and standards around making systems and services measurable and work with various teams to get those best practices applied
- Create tools and libraries for other engineering teams to enable them to build self-monitoring capabilities
- Create and own internal documentation used by the other engineering teams
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in observability, logging, monitoring, and cloud technologies. Introducing innovative solutions and best practices to improve system observability and reliability. Experiment with new tools and practices to enhance the observability landscape.
- Collaborate with different engineering teams to integrate observability practices into their workflows.
- Participate in a rotating on-call within the larger Infrastructure Engineering division
Skills you’ll bring
- Background in both Systems and/or Software Engineering
- +5 years of experience
- Experience in designing, automating, maintaining and optimizing observability platforms (logging, metrics, and tracing)
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.
- Experience with Public Cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, etc.
- Familiarity with languages such as Python, Go, Rust, etc.
Bonus skills you may have
- Previous direct experience with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus
- Experience with Linux
- Experience with Kubernetes (including GKE/EKS) and building containerized applications
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Culture
We’ve been named a Top Workplace seven times, and a big part of this is because of our collaborative culture that elevates our teammates, celebrates wins, and brings together passion and talent.
Compensation and equity
Teamwork makes the dream work, and Dialpad offers competitive salaries in addition to stock options because each and every Dialer participates in our success.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Dialpad
At Dialpad, we are passionate about Doing the Right Thing. This means we are committed to building a values-driven culture that celebrates identity, inclusion and belonging. As a global company, it’s our responsibility to come together to create a culture where all Dialers can Work Beautifully, Delight Our Users, and Innovate Continuously to bring our world-class product to life.
Every Voice Matters at Dialpad. We build community through our Employee Resource Groups, company-wide celebrations, service days, and a robust internal learning & development program focused on the success of our Dialers.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and marginalized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Dialpad we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Dialpad is an equal-opportunity employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.