Lead Software Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 4000000 - Rs 5500000 (ie INR 40-55 LPA)

Pune

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end observability platforms with a strong emphasis on OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
• Ensure consistent and reliable emission of metrics, logs, and traces across multiple languages such as Java, Python, Go, and Node.js
• Develop scalable observability strategies for engineering teams, enabling seamless monitoring and alerting across distributed systems
• Lead adoption of OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing tools across the organization
• Define, refine, and operationalize SLOs and SLIs in collaboration with product and engineering teams
• Identify observability gaps and work with teams to improve monitoring coverage, alerting quality, and incident response workflows
• Mentor engineers on advanced instrumentation, observability patterns, dashboard design, and effective troubleshooting
• Evaluate emerging observability technologies and recommend enhancements to improve platform health and reliability
• Document standards, best practices, and observability guidelines to drive consistent usage across teams
  

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Proven experience building and scaling observability systems for distributed, high-performance environments
• Advanced knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and modern tracing and logging platforms
• Strong understanding of structured logging, metrics, and tracing across multiple programming languages
• Ability to design and operationalize SLOs and SLIs using real-time observability data
• Expertise in debugging complex distributed systems using traces, metrics, and logs
• A passion for enabling engineering teams through guidance, documentation, and best-practice observability frameworks
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams
• Curiosity and initiative to explore new observability tools and drive continuous improvement