Job Description

About Advance Auto Parts
Founded in Roanoke, VA in 1932, Advance Auto Parts is a leading automotive aftermarket retail parts provider that serves both professional installer and do-it-yourself Customers. As of July 13, 2019, Advance operated 4,912 stores and 150 Worldpac branches in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Company also serves 1,250 independently owned CARQUEST branded stores across these locations in addition to Mexico, the Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands. The company has a workforce of over 70,000 knowledgeable and experienced Team Members who are proud to provide outstanding service to their Customers, Communities, and each other every day.

About Advance India Innovation Center (AIIC):
We are continually innovating and seeking to elevate the Customer experience at each of our stores. For an organization of our size and reach, today, it has become more critical than ever, to identify synergies and build shared capabilities. The Advance India Innovation Center (AIIC), located in Hyderabad, is a step in this strategic direction that enables us to access a larger talent pool, unlock operational efficiencies and increase levels of collaboration.

WHO WE ARE

Come join our Technology Team and start reimagining the future of the automotive aftermarket. We are a highly motivated tech-focused organization, excited to be in the midst of dynamic innovation and transformational change. Driven by Advance’s top-down commitment to empowering our team members, we are focused on delighting our Customers with Care and Speed, through delivery of world class technology solutions and products.

We value and cultivate our culture by seeking to always be collaborative, intellectually curious, fun, open, and diverse. You will be a key member of a growing and passionate group focused on collaborating across business and technology resources to drive forward key programs and projects building enterprise capabilities across Advance Auto Parts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: other duties may be assigned:

Engineering & Platform Ownership

• Write production‑quality code and automated tests, owning the technical delivery, reliability, and health of observability platforms and services.
• Design, build, and operate metrics, logs, and distributed tracing pipelines across GCP, Kubernetes, on‑premises, and edge systems.
• Develop and maintain scalable observability architectures, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Analyze system behavior and performance data to identify optimization opportunities, reliability risks, and capacity constraints.

Observability Tooling & Architecture

• Lead implementation and evolution of OpenTelemetry‑based tracing, metrics, and logging standards.
• Design and manage metrics platforms (e.g., Prometheus ecosystems, Victoria Metrics, Grafana) at enterprise scale.
• Build or enhance custom observability tooling (e.g., query protection layers, metric governance tools, analytics utilities) to improve platform reliability and usability.
• Champion best practices for monitoring, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, and error budgets.

Code Quality & Technical Excellence

• Review code developed by other engineers and provide constructive feedback to enforce best practices in coding, testing, observability, and security.
• Triage, debug, and resolve complex production issues, tracking root causes through logs, metrics, and traces.
• Develop efficient algorithms and solutions with consideration for hardware constraints, network behavior, service operations, and cost impact.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor and guide engineers on observability design patterns, coding standards, and platform usage.
• Serve as a technical leader and role model, driving adoption of observability best practices across teams.
• Influence engineering culture by promoting data‑driven decision‑making, operational excellence, and reliability engineering.

Collaboration & Integration

• Work cross‑functionally with Infrastructure, Platform, Security, Data, and Product teams to ensure seamless integration and reliable operations.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews with peers and stakeholders to evaluate tools, technologies, and implementation approaches.
• Partner with platform and engineering leadership to align observability initiatives with business goals and platform strategy.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or SRE, with deep focus on observability.
• Strong hands‑on experience with metrics, logging, and distributed tracing systems.
• Experience operating observability platforms in Kubernetes environments.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python) with experience writing production‑grade code.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and hybrid/on‑premises environments.
• Deep experience with OpenTelemetry, Victoria Metrics, Prometheus, Grafana, and log‑based metrics.
• Experience designing cost‑efficient observability platforms and optimizing telemetry pipelines.
• Background in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading platform initiatives across multiple teams

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