Logz.io helps cloud-native businesses monitor and secure their environment. Our Open 360™ Platform turns observability from a high-cost, low-value burden to a high-value, cost-efficient enabler of better business outcomes by combining and extending familiar, powerful and relevant Open Source capabilities across Logs, Metrics and Traces – complemented by security monitoring in the form of cloud-based SIEM.

Now developers and engineers can employ an end-to-end, cloud-native observability stack built on scalable and easy-to-use Open Source using a single UI and unified agent – at a cost that anyone can afford. Our customers unlock proactive troubleshooting, faster product delivery and a fully supported SaaS observability platform, all while compounding efficiencies in time and cost.

Logz.io is currently building the most advanced SaaS observability platform in the market, based on popular, cutting-edge, open-source technologies. We’re looking for a highly motivated and experienced backend team lead who is deeply passionate about addressing complex, large-scale problems and can apply their expertise to uphold and extend our cutting-edge

solutions.

The Role

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Team Lead to elevate our Telemetry Storage team to new heights. This team is at the core of Logz.io’s mission, managing the large-scale, multi-tenant data stores that power our observability platform—OpenSearch and Thanos. These open-source technologies form the backbone of our product, and the team is dedicated to tackling the challenges of scaling and evolving them effectively.

As a Team Lead, you will drive innovation in areas such as automation, performance optimization, and system scalability. You’ll lead a multinational team of skilled backend developers, fostering collaboration and creativity while championing our values of technical excellence and a customer-centric mindset. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape the direction of critical infrastructure, ensuring it delivers value to customers and drives broader organizational innovation and success.

Responsibilities:

Lead a global team of 4-5 experienced backend developers to manage the core components of customer data storage within a large-scale, multi-tenant architecture.

Design and extend the foundational architecture of our backend stack, addressing challenges in high-scale data processing.

Work closely with various teams across the organization, exploring a wide range of technologies and domains.

Ensure core components leverage the latest technologies to maximize system performance and utilization, while keeping the highest standards of stability and security.

Requirements:

2+ years of experience in managing a development team, driving production environment workloads

5+ years of hands-on professional experience in Java/Kotlin/Scala/Go backend development with deep expertise in microservices environments

Self-motivated, quick learner, proactive and a true team player with no less than excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a global company

Excellent English both verbal and written

It would be amazing if you have prior experience with specifically:

Opensearch/Elasticsearch, Timeseries Databases (Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics…)

Cloud Infrastructure (preferably AWS), Automation & Operations, Observability

Experience with Docker & K8s

Logz

Backend Team Lead, Telemetry Storage