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Software Engineer II

metricstime-seriesdistributed tracingOpenTelemetryHoneycombalertingKubernetesobservabilitydebuggingsoftware engineering

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Entry

Years experience

0-2

Location

Sydney, Australia

Full job description

The Trade Desk is seeking a junior software engineer for the Service Excellence team focused on Monitoring & Observability. Responsibilities include building and operating a metrics platform for time-series data, supporting distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb, and developing alert quality tooling to improve alert signal and reduce noise. Candidates should have curiosity about production systems, some experience with deploying or debugging services, familiarity with observability concepts (logging, alerting, on-call workflows), a debugging mindset, and clear communication skills. Experience with Kubernetes and observability tools is a plus. The role requires willingness to work across distributed systems, observability pipelines, and web-based tooling. Location: Sydney, Australia.

What you'll do

  • Build and operate the metrics platform that ingests, stores, and serves time-series data for every engineering team
  • Help engineers with distributed tracing using OTel pipelines, trace sampling, and Honeycomb
  • Build alert quality tooling to improve signal-to-noise ratio, smarter routing, better grouping, and tighter feedback loops between alerts and owning teams

Requirements

  • Curiosity about how production systems work
  • Some exposure to deploying, operating, or debugging real services
  • Willingness to work across the stack including distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability pipelines, and web-based tooling
  • Familiarity with observability concepts: logging, alerting, on-call workflows
  • Debugging mindset
  • Clear communication skills

Tech stack

metrics platformtime-series datadistributed tracingOpenTelemetry (OTel)HoneycombalertingKubernetesobservability pipelinesweb-based tooling

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