Sr Software Engineer - Observability, T-Mobile

T-Mobile

Location:

United States, Bellevue ▼

Overland Park

Bothell

Category:

IT - Software Development

Contract Type:

Employment contract

Salary:

113600.00 - 205000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Our team is searching for a Sr Software Engineer focusing on observability and telemetry. You will work with other software, test engineers, SRE engineers, and systems engineers to craft, implement, and deploy capabilities that support our observability initiatives. This role is critical in ensuring system reliability, performance, and availability through effective monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions. As a Senior Engineer, you will work closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and Application teams to develop robust observability strategies that enable proactive issue resolution and system insights.

Job Responsibility:

Design and implement best-in-class observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and event correlation
Develop and maintain observability tooling, integrating technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, or similar
Define and optimize alerting mechanisms to ensure the right signals are surfaced to teams, reducing noise and improving incident response
Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and work with engineering teams to improve application and infrastructure efficiency
Automate observability-related processes, such as log analysis, anomaly detection, and self-healing mechanisms
Partner with development, operations, and security teams to implement observability best practices across services and applications
Support on-call teams by providing insights and visibility into system behavior, assisting in real-time troubleshooting
Build and maintain dashboards that provide clear insights into application health, performance, and user experience
Contributes to designs to implement new ideas which use new frameworks to improve an existing or new system/process/service
Review existing designs and processes to highlight more efficient ways to complete existing workload more effectively through industry perspectives
Understands the creation of company IPR
Collaborates with technical teams and applies system expertise to deliver technical solutions
Continuously learns and teaches others existing and new technologies
Contributes to the development of others through mentoring or in house workshops and learning sessions
Contributes to new and existing technology options that support business goals
Understands current technology that supports business goals. Understands system protocols, how systems operate and data flows. Aware of current technology benefits. Expected to independently develop a full software stack. Understands the building blocks, interactions, dependencies, and tools required to complete software and automation work. Independent study of current technology is expected. Interact with system engineers to define system requirement and/or necessary requirements for automation
Writes basic documentation on how technology works. Creates clear documentation for new code and systems used
Documenting systems designs, presentations, and business requirements for consumption and consideration at the manager level

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical subject area
4+ years technical engineering experience
5+ years of experience in Observability, SRE, DevOps, or related fields
Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, or similar
Strong knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker)
Deep understanding of distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics collection
Communication
Customer Service
Analytics
Technical Writing
At least 18 years of age
Legally authorized to work in the United States

What we offer:

Competitive base salary and compensation package
Annual stock grant
Employee stock purchase plan
401(k)
Access to free, year-round money coaches
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending account
Paid time off
Up to 12 paid holidays
Paid parental and family leave
Family building benefits
Back-up care
Enhanced family support
Childcare subsidy
Tuition assistance
College coaching
Short- and long-term disability
Voluntary AD&D coverage
Voluntary accident coverage
Voluntary life insurance
Voluntary disability insurance
Voluntary long-term care insurance
Mobile service & home internet discounts
Pet insurance
Access to commuter and transit programs

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

April 05, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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