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You probably know us by our flagship products, QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, but that's just the start. We're taking on exciting challenges, such as SaaS and mobile applications. Over 50 million users, seven million small businesses and 1,600 financial institutions depend on Intuit because we innovate at the crossroads of real customer problems and breakthrough technology. Join us and let your ingenious ideas be heard.\nInterested in creating and leading the platforms that are high scale and mission critical? Want to solve large scale and highly availability platform challenges for on premise and public cloud deployments? Intuit is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, who is characterized by progressive technical experience and has demonstrated progression in technical prowess, to join PDX Observability Engineering team.\nThe Staff Software Engineer will join the Core PDX Observability Engineering team at Intuit to design and deliver the next-generation logging and observability platform. This role focuses on creating and leading high-scale, mission-critical pipelines and solving large-scale, high-availability challenges across on-premise and public cloud (AWS, GCP) deployments. 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This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. 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