Observability Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Sun, May 17, 2026
This job expires in: 27 days

Job Summary

Observability Engineer, responsible for designing and operating observability platforms with a focus on metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting, in a full-time remote role.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, and events
  • Architect deployments using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog for high availability and scale
  • Develop standards for service instrumentation and build dashboards and alerts to operationalize SLOs and SLIs
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles
  • Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and a major commercial observability platform
  • Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging
  • Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Go, Python, or Java

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