Staff Observability Platform Engineer
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Description
You will design, build, and improve observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and telemetry. You will lead technical initiatives, improve monitoring and incident response, develop reusable standards, guide engineers, and turn operational learnings into durable platform improvements.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve observability platforms across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and telemetry pipelines
- Lead scalable observability solutions for GPU and AI infrastructure
- Improve monitoring coverage, alert quality, service health visibility, and incident response
- Develop reusable observability standards, frameworks, and patterns
- Identify reliability risks and operational blind spots
- Contribute to telemetry architecture and performance decisions
- Mentor engineers through reviews and knowledge sharing
- Participate in incident investigations and postmortems
- Evaluate observability technologies and practices
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, observability engineering, or related disciplines
- Experience building and operating observability platforms in cloud-native distributed environments
- Experience with Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Elastic, or similar platforms
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or equivalent languages
- Experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes platforms at scale
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, tracing, telemetry pipelines, and observability practices
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, and performant systems
- Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and influence engineering decisions
- Communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs and aligning stakeholders
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation
