Observability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, May 27, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To support a growing team, the full-time Observability Engineer will design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms remotely, ensuring high availability and usability across the observability stack.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic monitoring
- Architect and deploy Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog solutions for scalability and high availability
- Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, creating dashboards and alerts to operationalize these metrics
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 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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