Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Company websitetogether.ai (Together AI, opens in new tab)
Base salary $200K to $280K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About the Role
Together AI is building the AI Acceleration Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle, combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure.
The AI Infrastructure team at Together AI is at the forefront of building and scaling the foundational systems that power our generative AI platform. The storage and observability team is crucial for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust distributed storage solutions, ensuring seamless data access and management. They are also responsible for developing comprehensive observability platforms, providing critical insights into system performance and GPU utilization, and proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a scalable observability platform (metrics, logs, traces) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, ClickStack, and OpenTelemetry, including telemetry data pipelines and log aggregation workflows.
- Develop automated monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection systems, including SLIs/SLOs, runbooks, and predictive analytics for critical services.
- Build and deploy custom observability tools and infrastructure-as-code using Go, Python, Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance distributed tracing and application monitoring, and lead incident response with post-mortem analysis.
- Define observability best practices.
Requirements
- Expertise in observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ClickStack, OpenTelemetry) and cloud-native monitoring services (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
- Experience designing, operating, and scaling large-scale distributed systems and pipelines for high-volume data ingestion and real-time querying.
- Deep understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of microservices architecture, service mesh technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows.
- Expertise in managing databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis) and time-series databases with high-cardinality data.
Preferred
- Experience monitoring AI/ML infrastructure, GPU clusters, and custom metrics for model performance and training pipelines.
- Background in high-frequency, low-latency systems monitoring, chaos engineering, and reliability testing.
- Contributions to open-source observability projects.
- Familiarity with security monitoring and compliance frameworks.
About Together AI
Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.
Compensation
We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $200,000 - $280,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
Application Policy
Please read each role carefully and apply to the position best suited to you. Candidates are limited to 6 applications within a 90-day period, and applications beyond that limit will be automatically rejected. You may apply to additional roles 90 days after your last application.
Equal Opportunity
Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.
Please see our privacy policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($200,000) is above 70% of the 4,198 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 146 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,550; the middle half runs from $149,200 to $204,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.
This listingSenior Software Engineer, Observability$200K to $280K
Systems Research Engineer, GPU Programming$200K to $300K
Platform Engineer, Model Shaping$200K to $290K
Senior Backend Engineer, Inference Platform$200K to $290K
Machine Learning Engineer - Inference$200K to $300K
Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training$200K to $290K
Sr. Field Marketing & Community Manager$190K to $225K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer, Observability (this listing) | $200K - $280K |
| Systems Research Engineer, GPU Programming | $200K - $300K |
| Platform Engineer, Model Shaping | $200K - $290K |
| Senior Backend Engineer, Inference Platform | $200K - $290K |
| Machine Learning Engineer - Inference | $200K - $300K |
| Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training | $200K - $290K |
| Sr. Field Marketing & Community Manager | $190K - $225K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2025-11-08
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco
startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $200,000 - $280,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by lo
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
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