# Senior Software Engineer – Network Observability at Clockwork

- Company: Clockwork
- What the company does: Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.clockwork.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Onsite Palo Alto, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clockworksystems/jobs/5986912004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clockwork-senior-software-engineer-network-observability/

## About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the architecture, development, and scaling of a high-performance network monitoring and observability platform. This role will focus on building systems that provide deep visibility into RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP/IP networks. The ideal candidate has strong experience in distributed systems, Linux networking, and modern observability stacks (e.g., Grafana/Prometheus).

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- Strong hands-on programming experience in C++, Go, Python, Rust, or similar systems programming languages
- Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure projects and contributing to the design and implementation of distributed systems
- Experience building distributed systems, backend services, telemetry pipelines, or observability platforms
- Hands-on experience with RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, or other high-performance network fabrics
- Familiarity with libibverbs, RDMA verbs, RDMA CM, queue pairs, completion queues, memory registration, and related RDMA concepts