Software Engineer (Data Platform - Observability)

Job Description

Job Description

About impact.com

impact.com is the world's leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L'Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com :

As a Software Engineer, you'll be the champion of performance and stability for our impact.com SaaS platform. Working closely with various engineering squads, you'll ensure features meet strict performance and error rate benchmarks. This collaborative role involves implementing comprehensive observability features to proactively identify and resolve issues. Ultimately, your mission is to guarantee exceptional platform reliability and global uptime. You'll be an expert in building, configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting complex systems, with a deep understanding of all technical layers. A relentless focus on quality and customer satisfaction.

What You'll Do :

• Become an expert of our observability tools, such as Elastic APM, Splunk, Logic Monitor, Grafana. Build and enhance monitoring and alerting solutions with these tools to ensure we are aware of the health of customer-facing product features
• Leverage data analyst tools such as DataBricks, Python, Machine Learning, Anomaly Detection to merge and augment observability datasets
• Ensure performance and metrics of our product features are within acceptable thresholds. Examples include : response latency, cpu and memory consumption, cloud costs, error rates, uptime
• Analyze and understand client-generated workloads - ensure resource consumption is consistent with their contract (e.g. Enterprise clients generate larger requests than Small Businesses, not the other way around).
• Configure alerts and document associated run books when thresholds are exceeded
• Drive and contribute to root-cause analysis when issues are identified
• Troubleshoot across the entire stack : hardware, software, database, network, applications, customer-generated workloads
• This role will have a particular focus on database performance and query optimization
• Remediations may include software or database optimizations, changes to rate limit configurations, or client outreach to reduce heavy requests.
• Identify targets for optimization, and collaborate with appropriate teams and stakeholders to ensure issues are resolved
• Analyze platform usage data to calculate costs generated by customers using our platform, inform capacity planning decisions, and find area for improvement

What You Bring :

Salary Range : $90,000 - $110,000 per year, plus additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance and eligible to receive Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant.

Benefits and Perks :

At impact.com, we believe that when you're happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That's why we've built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

impact.com is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy / maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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