Chronosphere

Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Infrastructure

United States

$200,000 – $250,000Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, SoftwareIndustries

Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: $200K - $250K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

Chronosphere

Chronosphere is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing data complexity, optimizing costs, and remediating issues faster. The observability platform reduces data volumes and associated costs by 60% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Chronosphere’s Fluent Bit-based Telemetry Pipeline optimizes and simplifies observability and security log data. The product transforms logs at the source and routes them to any destination without lock-in. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including Snap, Robinhood, DoorDash, and Zillow.

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About the Role

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer who will help ensure all components in our platform are optimized and battle-tested, so we can push our resources as far as they can go. This person also has a passion for developing internal tools and platforms that are simple and easy to use, to better improve developer productivity throughout the company, including your own.

You Will

  • Work on solving complex distributed systems problems at the largest scales in the world.
  • Help to make our infrastructure and architecture scale to meet the needs of the platform, and most importantly, solve the needs of engineers and companies using our platform.
  • Use Go to build highly scalable and reliable distributed systems.
  • Build on top of our architecture stack using Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS.
  • Operate large-scale distributed systems at scale globally.

What You Will Achieve

  • In your first 30 days: Become an integrated member of our team. Familiarize yourself with our technology and company.
  • After 3 months: Be fully integrated into the team and comfortable working on backend projects. Become an integral part of projects and work cross-functionally with our M3 and Platform teams.

You Have

  • The ability to own projects from inception to delivery (i.e., plan and gather requirements, collaborate with Product).
  • Pre-existing experience in building high-scale systems and experience with building sophisticated application services.
  • A passion for growing and up-leveling your peers, with pre-existing mentoring experience and a nuanced view around how to help junior engineers grow.
  • Ability to manage time and focus on the critical path of a project.
  • Experience with Go or C++, Java, C#, Rust.
  • Experience with operating Kubernetes clusters.
  • Experience with building and operating distributed systems at scale on top of cloud providers, like GCP and AWS.
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting.
  • Thorough experience with Linux; experience with open-source communities is a plus.

Location: US-Remote #LI-Remote

The Team

Reporting to Bill Lincoln, EM Cloud Infrastructure.

Our Benefits

  • Health Insurance Coverage
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Competitive Salary
  • Stock Options
  • And More

Chronosphere is an equal opportunity employer. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't line up exactly with the job description. Your skills, passion, and desire to make a difference will stand out. At Chronosphere, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge the standard.

If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at talent@chronosphere.io.

Before clicking “Submit Application”:

To support our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, we urge applicants to omit personal identifiers, including names, and any details that explicitly indicate gender or ethnicity from their applications to reduce bias. However, applying through our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) will include identifiable contact information.

Skills

Go
Kubernetes
GCP
AWS
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure Engineering
Observability
Telemetry Pipeline

Chronosphere

Cloud-native infrastructure and application monitoring

About Chronosphere

Chronosphere offers a platform that helps businesses monitor their cloud-native infrastructure and applications by quickly identifying and resolving issues before they affect customers. The platform filters out unnecessary data, allowing users to focus on critical information, which is especially useful for companies still using outdated monitoring tools. Unlike its competitors, Chronosphere emphasizes reducing observability costs, which can be a major expense for engineering teams, and helps decrease on-call alerts by up to 90%. The company's goal is to improve business efficiency and productivity while providing a strong return on investment.

New York City, New YorkHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$359.3MTotal Funding
SERIES_CCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Competitive Salary
Stock Options
Medical, Dental, Vision
Flexible PTO
Training & Career Growth
Flexible Work Enviroment
Commuter Benefits
Free Lunches

Risks

Emerging startups like Marqo increase competition in the observability space.
Integrating Calyptia may pose operational challenges and affect service quality.
Reliance on partnerships like CrowdStrike could risk disruptions in service.

Differentiation

Chronosphere uniquely integrates security features with observability through its CrowdStrike partnership.
The acquisition of Calyptia enhances Chronosphere's data pipeline capabilities for large-scale observability.
Chronosphere's platform reduces on-call pages by up to 90%, improving team productivity.

Upsides

Growing demand for cloud-native solutions boosts Chronosphere's market potential.
AI-driven observability tools enhance Chronosphere's value proposition by predicting and preventing issues.
FinOps practices increase demand for cost-effective observability, aligning with Chronosphere's offerings.

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