Observability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Jun 01, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To support a growing team, the full-time Observability Engineer will design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, while working remotely in a direct W2 engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and operate observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, and events
- Architect deployments for high availability and scale using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog
- Develop standards for service instrumentation and define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
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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