APM Agent Developer at Nathan Claire Africa

Confidential • Kenya, Kenya • Posted June 20, 2026

Position Overview

Job Description


  • This is a remote position.

  • The developer will be responsible for building a lightweight, self-healing, auto-scaling, multi-platform APM (Application Performance Monitoring) agent that can:

    • Instrumentation & Data Collection:

  • Automatically instrument applications to collect transaction traces, logs, and performance metrics.

  • Capture distributed tracing across microservices.

  • Track response times, error rates, resource usage, and database query performance.

  • Collect and forward application, system, and security logs.

    • Performance & Efficiency Optimization:

  • Implement adaptive sampling to reduce overhead.

  • Ensure async & non-blocking data collection.

  • Optimize CPU, memory, and network utilization to minimize application impact.

    • Distributed Tracing & Database Monitoring:

  • Assign and propagate trace IDs across microse...