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Software Engineer, Infra/Data

Sazabi · San Francisco · On-site

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About Sazabi

Autonomous alerts. Conversational debugging. Coding agent integrations. Sazabi is a new, AI-first approach to observability. Built for teams who ship fast. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Design systems for high-throughput, low-latency data processing Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our backend systems

What they're looking for

  • Strong experience with distributed systems and data infrastructure
  • Familiarity with streaming systems, databases, and large-scale data pipelines
  • Deep understanding of performance tradeoffs (latency, throughput, cost)
  • Ability to design systems from scratch, not just maintain them
  • Comfort working close to the metal when needed
  • Bonus: experience with observability platforms, logging systems, or time-series data
More about this role

In 2026, we're on the verge of an "infinite software crisis." How will we support, maintain, and operate the explosion in application development?

Our answer is Sazabi: the AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams.

Sazabi gives teams a single place to ask questions about their production systems in plain language, automatically visualize what's happening, and get to the root cause 10x faster. No tedious instrumentation. No dashboard configuration. No alert tuning. Just answers.

We're backed by tastemakers from the world's top AI companies: Vercel, Graphite, Daytona, Browserbase, LangChain, Mastra, Replit, and more.

Build and scale our log ingestion and processing pipeline

Design systems for high-throughput, low-latency data processing

Own storage, indexing, and query systems for logs

Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our backend systems

Work on distributed systems that power real-time observability

Debug and optimize performance at every layer of the stack

Strong experience with distributed systems and data infrastructure

Familiarity with streaming systems, databases, and large-scale data pipelines

Deep understanding of performance...

Read the full posting on Sazabi's site ↗

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