Backend Founding Engineer Backend Founding Engineer San Francisco / Remote San F

Sawmills is the first smart telemetry management platform, designed to handle the explosion of telemetry data generated by modern distributed systems. By integrating deeply with OpenTelemetry and cloud-native infrastructure, Sawmills AI enables teams to reduce observability cost, improve data quality, and safeguard realibility. Responsibilities:

Lead design/development of Telemetry Data Management Platform Craft scalable backend systems that integrate with open technologies (OpenTelemetry) Develop/scale backend of Telemetry Data Management Platform [emphasizing compatibility with open technologies (OpenTelemetry)] Write complex SQL queries, tuning db performance (indexes/partitions) Use streaming algorithms (Count-Min-Sketch, HyperLogLog) for high cardinality solutions Architect systems that process/analyze vast amounts of machine data Participate in strategic planning/development of technical roadmaps Work with founders to ensure features meet customers' needs Collaborate with team to enhance integration with widely-used observability tools Serve as advocate for/implement best practices in open-source software development Contribute to open-source community Design/implement end to end CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Argo CD) to automate testing, security scans, zero downtime releases Develop Terraform infrastructure as code modules to provision/manage multi account AWS environments Work with instrument services (OpenTelemetry SDKs) Define logs/metrics/traces standards to ensure comprehensive observability Conduct performance profiling/load testing (k6, Locust) to validate system scalability to multi petabyte data volumes Implement blue green and canary deployment strategies (AWS EKS) to minimize rollout risks Perform prototype tiered storage/compression strategies (S3 + Glacier, Parquet, ZSTD) to optimize long term data retention costs Lead threat modeling, IAM least privilege design, secret management efforts to harden platform security Build internal developer tooling/SDKs (Go /TypeScript) that speed micro service bootstrapping/ enforce coding standards Manage semantic versioning/release lifecycle of core platform components, ensuring backward compatibility Coordinate incident response, root cause analysis, post mortem documentation to drive reliability improvements Evaluate/integrate third party data platforms (Snowflake, DuckDB, Vector) through technical proofs of concepts Author technical blogs, conference talks, webinars to promote company thought leadership in observability Oversee vendor assessments/contract negotiations for critical infrastructure services Mentor/coach junior engineers via code reviews, pair programming, individualized growth plans Stay abreast of new technologies/techniques in backend development/observability platforms Job Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering, plus 5 years of progressive experience. Experience to include: Designing relational databases/async communication between microservices (Redis/message queue) Writing complex SQL queries, tuning db performance (indexes/partitions) Developing End2End features (K8s, Redis, Postgres, Python, AWS tools)/new AI products (RAG, LLMs)/micro-services (GO, React over AWS EKS, RDS, Kafka, gRPC) Using streaming algorithms (Count-Min-Sketch, HyperLogLog) for high cardinality solutions

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