Staff Software Engineer at Intuit

Compensation

$188,500 – $255,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Los Angeles, California · Mountain View, California
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Jul 22, 2026

Description

Intuit is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their PDX Observability Engineering team. The role involves designing and delivering a next-generation logging and observability platform, focusing on high-scale, mission-critical pipelines and solving large-scale, high-availability challenges across on-premise and public cloud deployments. The engineer will own the architecture and evolution of Intuit's One Logging system, maximizing velocity for thousands of developers.

Required Skills

Software Engineering
Distributed Systems
Logging/Data Pipelines
Observability Platforms
High-throughput Data Pipelines
Kubernetes
Containerized Workloads
Sidecar/Daemonset Architectures
Public Cloud Platforms
Splunk
Go
Java
Python

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, logging/data pipelines, or observability platforms.
Deep expertise in building and operating high-throughput data pipelines (log/event ingestion, streaming, routing) at multi-TB/PB daily scale.
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and sidecar/daemonset architectures (e.g., Fluent Bit)
Proficiency with public cloud platforms (AWS — S3, Kinesis, CloudWatch, EC2; GCP — logging/monitoring services)
Experience with Splunk or equivalent log management/observability platforms at scale
Demonstrated ability to lead architecture and design for mission-critical, high-availability systems
Experience driving cost-optimization initiatives for large-scale infrastructure
Strong track record of technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-team influence without direct reporting authority