Appgate
Senior/Staff/Principal SWE- Observability Engineering
New York, New York, United States · Principal · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 82 days ago
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About the role
- This is a builder's role with a strategist's reach.
Responsibilities
- It emits high-fidelity, correlated telemetry across every AppGate component, is OpenTelemetry-native, engineered for 100M+ events per day, and designed to stream into Datadog, Splunk, Nexthink, Elastic, or any OTLP-compatible backend.
- We are building Observability AI - a purpose-built observability platform for the Zero Trust era.
- This is your chance to build the observability platform for networks that protect nations.
Requirements
- You know when to prototype and when to ship.
Nice to have
- Prior ZTNA, SASE, or SD-WAN experience is a strong plus.
- Mindset: Pragmatic, opinionated, and impact driven.
- 8+ years of engineering experience with at least 4 years dedicated to observability, telemetry, or large-scale data infrastructure (Datadog, Splunk, Elastic, Honeycomb, New Relic, Grafana Labs, or equivalent).
- Deep OpenTelemetry expertise: OTLP, the OTel Collector, semantic conventions, context propagation, and head/tail sampling - you can debate the trade-offs in your sleep.
- High-throughput pipeline experience: Hands-on with systems ingesting 100M+ events per day, including back-pressure handling, batching, and storage trade-offs.
- Strong systems programming: Production Go and/or Rust preferred.
Benefits
- Our Observability Vision AppGate secures defense agencies, federal governments, and Fortune 100 enterprises.
Company info
- Mentor engineers and grow the observability discipline inside AppGate. • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work directly with product, R&D, and marquee customers in defense and critical infrastructure to shape requirements and deliver outcomes that matter.
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