Observability Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, May 22, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support a growing team, the full-time Observability Engineer will design and operate observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog while working remotely.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, and events
  • Architect and deploy Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog solutions for high availability and scalability
  • Develop standards for service instrumentation and define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets with corresponding dashboards and alerts
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 commercial observability platform like Datadog
  • 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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