Senior Software Engineer (Network Observability)

Clockwork Systems

Palo Alto, CA • 15m ago • On-site

Senior

On-site

140,000 - 210,000 USD/yr

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Quick Facts

  • Role: Senior Software Engineer focused on Network Observability

  • Mission: Build and scale high-performance network monitoring and observability

Description

Design, develop, and scale a high-performance network monitoring and observability platform for RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP/IP infrastructure. Build backend telemetry services including dashboards, alerts, diagnostics, anomaly detection, SLA monitoring, and traffic analysis. Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, OS, server, RDMA, and network layers while optimizing low-latency collection, aggregation, and alerting.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and scale network monitoring platforms for RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP/IP

  • Build telemetry backends and observability workflows (dashboards, alerts, diagnostics, anomaly detection, SLA monitoring, traffic analysis)

  • Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, OS, server, RDMA, and network layers while optimizing low-latency collection/aggregation/alerting

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions and improve engineering practices, automations, and technical direction

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical field

  • Strong hands-on programming in C++, Go, Python, Rust, or similar systems languages

  • Experience delivering complex infrastructure projects and contributing to distributed systems design/implementation

  • Experience building distributed systems, backend services, telemetry pipelines, or observability platforms

  • Hands-on experience with RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand (or similar high-performance network fabrics)

  • Familiarity with libibverbs and core RDMA concepts (RDMA verbs, RDMA CM, queue pairs, completion queues, memory registration)

  • Strong knowledge of Linux networking and TCP/IP performance fundamentals (DNS, HTTP, routing, MTU, congestion control, packet loss, latency)

  • Experience with traceroute-style diagnostics, path discovery, network reachability checks, synthetic probes, or active network measurements

  • Experience with monitoring and visualization platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry)

  • Strong debugging across software, OS, server, and network layers

  • Experience operating production systems in Linux-based environments

  • Strong technical judgment to build reliable, scalable, maintainable systems

Benefits

  • Challenging projects

  • Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

  • Competitive compensation

  • Great benefits package

  • Catered lunch

  • Expected base salary range: $140,000 - $210,000 (varies by skills/experience and internal equity)

  • Potential stock options or other equity awards subject to the equity program and approvals

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