Distributed Systems Engineer - Data Platform - Analytics and Alerts

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. As a small team, we’re all generalists and constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React and TypeScript. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America and Europe. You can work from most timezones within these regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Build new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI components Optimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols Add real-time collaborative editing to our content editor Improve performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering Add analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product Redefine best-in-class software deve

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are: Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance Guiding the development of SLOs Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices Engaging in service and architectural conversations Recommending observability and alerting configurations The SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including: infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems capacity management, load and chaos testing automation, observability, and configuration management development and product experience The SRE team is seeking motivated software and systems engineers with the experience to build, iterate on, and expand incident lifecycle, reliability, and resilience practices throughout Affirms Engineering organization and beyond. What You'll Do: You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with infrastructure, product management, developer experience & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. You will proactively identify technical solutions

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are: Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance Guiding the development of SLOs Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices Engaging in service and architectural conversations Recommending observability and alerting configurations The SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including: infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems capacity management, load and chaos testing automation, observability, and configuration management development and product experience The SRE team is seeking motivated software and systems engineers with the experience to build, iterate on, and expand incident lifecycle, reliability, and resilience practices throughout Affirms Engineering organization and beyond. What You'll Do: You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with infrastructure, product management, developer experience & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. You will proactively identify technical solutions

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. As a small team, we’re all generalists that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end). We’re looking for experienced engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in the US and Europe. You can work from anywhere within those regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do Build new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI components Optimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols Add real-time collaborative editing to our content editor Improve performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering Add analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built product. What we're looking for 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company Strong React and Typ

Senior Software Engineer - Observability and Reliability About the Role We are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who have the chops to build and deliver world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible. What You Will Be Doing Build observability tools and platforms, including: metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboarding, alerting, application performance management Build with modern tools and languages like Go, Open Telemetry and Kubernetes Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies. We expect successful candidates to be coding a majority of their time Qualifications We Need Strong Computer Science fundamentals 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software, especially software other engineers use You apply a product mindset to infrastructure systems and feel accomplished enabling others Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building systems for data analytics Distributed systems monitoring and profiling skills Knowledge of cloud application security models Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Startup experience Additional Job details Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240k annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize e

Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our Integrations team. In this role, you will be designing, developing, and scaling highly available healthcare integration systems supporting prior authorization workflows across providers, payers, and delegated entities. You'll direct a fast-paced, autonomous,agile team of software engineers in the design, development, and operational support of a growing enterprise integration platform. This is an opportunity to drive technical excellence at the intersection of healthcare interoperability and modern distributed systems. What you’ll do: Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across architecture, system design, platform scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Platform Engineering: Design and build scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems that support critical business workflows and enterprise integrations. Integration Solutions: Lead the development and maintenance of secure integrations with internal and external platforms, partners, and third-party systems. Cloud & Automation: Drive cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and software delivery practices that enable reliable and efficient releases. Distributed Systems: Design and support event-driven and distributed architectures that enable scalable and fault-tolerant processing. Operational Excellence: Establish monitoring, observability, and incident response practices to ensure system reliability, performance, and availability. Quality Engineering: Champion automated testing, quality assurance, and engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Production Support: Lead the resolution of complex production issues and drive continuous improvement in platform stability and operational efficiency. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, operations, data, security, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with organizational goals. Agile Delive