Observability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Tue, Aug 11, 2026
This job expires in: 26 days
Job Summary
Leading the architecture and evolution of a large-scale telemetry and observability platform, the full-time Observability Engineer will manage real-time data ingestion, streaming, and visualization, working in a hybrid environment with occasional travel.
Key responsibilities
- Architect and optimize scalable telemetry ingestion and storage platforms using Java and PostgreSQL
- Design and enhance high-throughput Apache Kafka streaming pipelines for real-time telemetry processing
- Define enterprise observability standards and build advanced Grafana dashboards for monitoring global infrastructure
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in distributed systems
- 5+ years of experience building large-scale network engineering, telemetry, or observability platforms
- Expert-level proficiency in Java backend development
- Strong expertise with Apache Kafka, including cluster architecture and stream processing
- Advanced experience with PostgreSQL schema design, optimization, and performance tuning
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