jobs@entomo

Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Angular/React, Kubernetes

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Reliability & Observability) who is a strong hands- on Java/Spring Boot engineer and takes end-to-end ownership of production reliability.

This role moves beyond traditional monitoring and ticket escalation. The engineer is expected to proactively identify production issues, perform in-depth debugging at the application code level, implement permanent fixes, and safely deploy improvements to production systems.

The position involves approximately 70% backend application development and 30% reliability engineering/SRE and DevOps responsibilities, with a strong emphasis on observability, incident response, and system resilience.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development & Incident Resolution (≈70%)

• Own production issues from detection through resolution, ensuring minimal impact to users and systems.

• Debug and resolve issues directly within Java and Spring Boot codebases, including but not limited to:

○ Performance bottlenecks and latency issues

○ Memory leaks and JVM tuning problems

○ Concurrency and multithreading issues

○ API failures and error-handling gaps

Database and caching inefficiencies

• Conduct deep root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement long- term, sustainable fixes, rather than temporary workarounds.

• Strengthen application resilience by designing and implementing:

○ Robust exception-handling strategies

○ Timeouts, retries, and circuit breaker patterns

○ Graceful degradation and fail-safe mechanisms

• Develop clean, maintainable, and production-grade code, supported by strong unit, integration, and reliability-focused testing.

Reliability, Observability & DevOps (≈30%)

• Design, implement, and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions across services.

• Analyze metrics, logs, and distributed traces to proactively detect and prevent reliability issues.

• Apply SRE best practices to improve system stability and availability, including:

○ Defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

○ Leading or contributing to incident postmortems and driving preventive action plans

• Collaborate with CI/CD systems to safely deploy fixes and improvements to production.

• Support and optimize cloud-native and containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.

Role Expectations

• This is not a monitoring-only or escalation-focused role.

• The engineer is expected to fix production issues directly in code and take accountability for system reliability.

• Success in this role depends on a strong engineering mindset, ownership, and a proactive approach to production stability.