Senior Observability Engineer

Role overview

Set technical direction for observability across large enterprise environments, connecting metrics, logs, traces, and events to service reliability and operational decision-making. The role combines architecture, hands-on platform engineering, incident leadership, automation, and guidance for global operations teams.

Responsibilities

- Define and govern observability standards, telemetry pipelines, retention policies, cardinality controls, and cost practices. - Lead evaluations and first-of-kind implementations, turning new monitoring approaches into secure, repeatable production patterns. - Establish service indicators, objectives, and error budgets; lead major incident response and evidence-based root cause reviews. - Reduce detection and recovery times and alert noise through correlation, dynamic thresholds, and dependency mapping. - Automate observability deployment and operations, integrating monitoring with infrastructure code, IT service management, and delivery pipelines. - Design monitoring for containers, Kubernetes, microservices, and multi-cloud systems; lead knowledge transfer, vendor transitions, and team mentoring.

Requirements

- More than 12 years of IT experience, including 5–7 years as a lead architect, SRE, or principal observability engineer in a large enterprise. - Demonstrated success moving organizations from legacy monitoring to automated observability platforms. - Hands-on ability to build scalable, secure telemetry pipelines and time-series data systems. - Experience leading early technology rollouts and complex operational or vendor transitions. - Broad experience across observability and APM, container platforms, cloud environments, infrastructure, automation, and major incident management.

Nice to have

Relevant Kubernetes, cloud architecture, or observability vendor certifications are preferred.

Benefits and work setup

The listing describes remote work for roles not requiring a client site, with a 40-hour work week. Benefits include health and dental insurance, life insurance, pension matching, meal and internet allowances, employee assistance, wellness support, and potential performance-based compensation and equity awards.