Principal Product Engineer

About Dash0

Join Dash0 and help us define the future of observability. We are OpenTelemetry-native, building a delightful, simple, and AI-centric platform that eliminates vendor lock-in and meaningless toil. Shape a product that developers love—all with transparent pricing and cost-control built in.

Let's Architect a Data Engine at Scale.

Are you ready to define the technical future of a product that developers genuinely love?

At Dash0, we're not just building another observability tool; we're on a mission to bring observability closer to the developers; make it a part of their everyday work. We believe that getting deep insights should be easy and accessible. Our customers praise our simpler solution that empowers developers, and we're scaling fast.

We are looking for a Staff Product Engineer to lead the architectural vision of our backend, joining our Intelligent Edge team, extending the OpenTelemetry Collector with capabilities to reduce the vast amount of data in a smart and efficient way, allowing customers to cut through the noise of big OpenTelemetry installations.

You won't just write code; you will own the technical roadmap, drive economic efficiency in our data infrastructure, and mentor a team of brilliant engineers.

The Challenge You'll Tackle:

• Architect for massive scale and complexity. You will provide technical leadership for our core ingestion and processing pipelines. Your role is to look ahead—anticipating future bottlenecks and ensuring our systems can scale smoothly.

• Telemetry Manipulation. You will process and manipulate telemetry data at scale. Avoiding single-points of failure while delivering novel approaches to telemetry volume management.

• Drive reliability and risk management. You will own the reliability of the platform, proactively identifying risks before they become incidents. You’ll foster a security-first culture and ensure our monitoring efforts are world-class.

• Provide mentorship and improve the process. You will define the standards for code quality, testing, and observability. You act as a force multiplier—mentoring others, reviewing PRDs to ensure technical feasibility, and simplifying complex technical designs to align with product goals.

What Success Looks Like (and How You'll Get There):

• Within 1 week, you'll have shipped your first piece of production ready code.

• Within 3 months, you’ll have extended our pipeline mechanisms with new aggregation and sampling capabilities that are deployed SaaS- and customer-side.

• Within 6 months, you’ll have established new architectural patterns for our Go services and OpenTelemetry Collector distributions. You will be actively mentoring engineers across the organization, helping them level up their understanding of distributed systems and observability.

• Within 12 months, you will be a technical authority for our Intelligent Edge strategy, having successfully guided the team through major scaling challenges. You’ll have played a key role in shaping the product roadmap by bridging the gap between technical constraints and customer needs.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has deep architectural expertise in building and scaling distributed backend systems using Go. You understand the trade-offs of different patterns and can explain them clearly.

• Has solid knowledge of Kafka. You understand messaging systems and patterns well enough to come up with efficient and creative solutions.

• Expertly leverages AI and agentic coding tools to accelerate development, applying deep technical judgment to verify, refine, and own the final output.

• Has strong product and economic thinking. You don't just build features; you collaborate with product teams to evaluate feasibility and resource efficiency, ensuring we deliver value to customers efficiently.

• Is a natural mentor and cultural leader. You have a track record of improving team processes, fostering psychological safety, and elevating the quality of work around you.

• Lives and breathes Observability. As an expert in OpenTelemetry and monitoring, you contribute to improving observability not just in our product, but within our own engineering practices.

Why Dash0?

• Strategic Impact: Your architectural decisions will define the trajectory of our platform for years to come.

• Brilliant Team: Work with a high-trust, high-talent team where you can lead, learn, and experiment.

• Product-Market Fit: We're solving a real problem with a product that's gaining serious traction.

• Fully Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere in Europe with a competitive salary and stock options.

Ready to build the future of observability with us? Apply now!

Why Dash0

This is a unique opportunity to help build a generational company. Dash0 is backed by top-tier investors including Balderton Capital, Accel and Cherry Ventures and led by a founding team with decades of experience in observability. We're in the middle of a massive growth phase after our Series B — and we're just getting started.

If you're looking for a place where a great product meets great people, where momentum is real and your impact is visible from day one — this is it.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary & meaningful equity participation — you'll own part of what you're building

• Flexible, remote-first work environment with offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Munich

• €60/month phone & internet allowance

• Location-specific benefits

• Collaborative, fast-moving team culture with a builder mindset

• Clear path for career growth and development

• Direct access to founders and leadership