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You will develop and maintain Java microservices and Apache Flink applications that ingest, process, store, query, and present high-volume observability data. The APM platform operates at substantial scale, processing millions of spans per minute while maintaining low latency, reliability, data quality, and cost efficiency., * Develop and maintain core APM repositories, shared platform capabilities, APIs, and operational tooling.
- Build scalable query-engine capabilities for traces, spans, metrics, logs, and service topology data.
- Design and operate Flink-based streaming ingestion pipelines that validate, enrich, transform, aggregate, and route telemetry.
- Lead and support the transition from relational database storage to OCI Log Analytics, including data migration, infrastructure migration, schema evolution, compatibility, and operational continuity.
- Define and manage telemetry schemas, versioning, data contracts, migrations, and data-quality controls.
- Build and maintain application monitoring agents and instrumentation with low runtime overhead and reliable configuration.
- Develop APM UI experiences for exploring telemetry, diagnosing incidents, configuring monitoring and alerts, and visualizing traces, dependencies, and performance trends.
- Deploy and operate cloud-native services using OCI components, including OCI Streaming and Kubernetes/OKE.
- Partner directly with customers to understand analysis requirements, troubleshoot product and query issues, and optimize queries for successful, performant use of the APM product.
- Improve reliability, scalability, observability, security, and cost efficiency across the platform.
Requirements
- Strong Java software-engineering experience, especially building distributed microservices.
- Hands-on experience developing Apache Flink applications and streaming data pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of OCI services, particularly OCI Streaming and Kubernetes/OKE.
- Experience with relational databases, data modeling, schema evolution, and data or infrastructure migrations.
- Familiarity with OCI Log Analytics or comparable log analytics and observability platforms.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and modern monitoring technologies, including distributed tracing, metrics, logs, instrumentation, and observability data models.
- Experience designing and operating high-throughput systems, ideally involving telemetry, event streams, or millions of events per minute.
- Ability to work effectively across backend systems, data engineering, infrastructure, agents, UI development, and customer-facing technical problem solving.
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