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Backend Engineer, Metrics - Software Delivery & Data Management Firm

Company: Curb

Location: toronto, London

Posted: June 01, 2026

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Backend Engineer — Metrics Platform

About The Role

Build the metrics and telemetry backbone that powers observability and analytics. You’ll design ingestion, storage, and query paths for high-cardinality, high-throughput time-series data.

What You’ll Do

  • Design distributed ingestion pipelines with backpressure and durability.
  • Implement time-series storage, retention, downsampling, and compaction.
  • Expose query/search APIs for dashboards, alerts, and analytics.
  • Tackle cardinality and cost efficiency at scale.
  • Integrate with tracing/logging to deliver unified observability.

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years in backend/distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Go/Java/Python and streaming (Kafka, Pulsar).
  • Experience with TSDB/OLAP stores (Prometheus, ClickHouse, M3, Cortex, InfluxDB).
  • Str...