SOFTWARE ENGINEER

We’re constantly working towards making BABVIP the best place to work, for everyone. We believe deeply that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our equally diverse community all around the world. We celebrate uniqueness and whatever makes you, you and encourage everyone who wants to help us transform the way the world designs, to join us on this journey. We value all different types of experiences. If you don’t think you quite meet all of the qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you. 

ABOUT US

At BABVIP, our mission is to democratize design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform. Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and a remarkable growth trajectory – we’re out to change the world, one design at a time. 

Since launch in August 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 60 million monthly active users across 190 different countries who have created more than 6 Billion designs. We are one of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies and we have only achieved about 1% of what we want to do.

The Observability Team is responsible for all operational insights inside BABVIP. Our goal is to provide our development team with world-class tools to view how their services are performing in production. We achieve this by combining industry-leading third-party solutions with our own in-house developed solutions. We work across the entire stack maintaining our metrics and logging Java libraries, our logging and metrics infrastructure, error and alert routing, and our incident management process to name just a few. As we scale all of these areas require more sophisticated solutions to ensure that BABVIP developers can continue to grow without compromising on reliability or availability.

WHAT YOU WILL

• Be proactive in modernizing our Observability tooling and participate in brainstorming and POC’ing to determine how we can improve our existing systems
• Become an expert on the area of Observability and evangelise the benefits of proper instrumentation throughout the organisation
• Help build new features into our Logging and Alerting pipelines to ensure that people are getting notified for errors that are related to their domains
• Help develop solutions to solve difficult problems such as how to deal with high-cardinality metrics which we can’t solve with our existing tooling
• Guide and mentor people on the team and help them grow out their skills and knowledge
• Required experience and background
• Comfortable and happy to code in Python, Java or Golang
• Deep knowledge and understanding of Computer Engineering fundamentals and first principles
• Experience with Observability tooling – having competency with tools like Data dog, Elastic search, Kabana, Leggy, Sentry, or similar
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, we’re a Terraform shop, but strong experience with other IMac tools will do the trick
• The ability to guide and mentor other members within the team and improve the way we collaborate, learn, and share ideas
• This role requires a lot of documentation and internal client-facing; therefore strong written and verbal communication skills are required

WE’D LOVE IT OF YOU HAVE

• Experience with Open telemetry because it’s going to underpin a lot of the tooling the team owns.
• Experience writing application code in Java since we also maintain the metrics, tracing and logging java libraries. 
• Experience building and running monitoring infrastructure at a large scale. For example, Terabyte-scale Elastic search clusters, Prometheus, Kabana, Granma, etc.
• Experience with data handling at scale (collection, storage and visualization)

PERKS AND BENEFITS

• Competitive salary, plus stock options via our ESOP plan
• Flexible daily working hours, we value work-life balance
• Breakfast and lunch prepared by our wonderful Vibe team
• Onsite-Gym and Yoga Membership
• End-of-Trip Facilities: Bicycle parking and showers
• Generous parental (including secondary) leave policy
• Pet-friendly offices
• Internal Coaches and an Employee Wellness Program
• Sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
• Relocation budget for interstate or overseas individuals (including visa sponsorship)

The BABVIP workspace is set up for you to do your best work and have a great time doing so, with breakout areas, little nooks, and quiet places to retreat.