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Senior Observability Systems Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 15, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Setting the technical direction for observability practices, the full-time remote Senior Observability Systems Engineer will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and manage observability platforms across data centers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Establish technical standards for observability, including instrumentation and alerting practices
  • Own and evolve the metrics pipeline and logging stack, ensuring scalability and performance visibility
  • Implement infrastructure-as-code for observability stack deployments and automate configuration management
Required Qualifications
  • 8+ years in systems engineering, SRE, DevOps, or observability roles with technical leadership experience
  • Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and log aggregation tools like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
  • Working knowledge of distributed tracing tools such as Jaeger and OpenTelemetry
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Go for automation and tooling
  • Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling

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