Senior Observability Engineer

Job Title: Senior Observability Engineer

Work Location: Remote

Contract duration: Long term contract

Visa: / Only

Job Description:

Senior Observability Engineer – Required Skill Set

• Core Technical Skills- Observability Platforms
• Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
• Jaeger, Tempo, Open Telemetry
• Programming & Development
• Golang (Preferred), Python, Java and C#
• Cloud & Platform Engineering
• Kubernetes, Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform), Containerized Environments
• Distributed Systems Architecture
• Observability Engineering
• Metrics, Logs, Traces, Events, SLI / SLO Design, Telemetry Collection & Processing
• Instrumentation of Applications, Alerting & Monitoring Frameworks and Telemetry Pipeline Development
• Automation & AIOps
• Observability Automation, AIOps Solutions, API Development, Internal Tooling Development and MTTR Reduction Initiatives

Engineering Experience Required

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on Observability Engineering experience
• Strong Software Engineering background
• Production support and troubleshooting experience
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems
• Performance tuning and optimization and Debugging production incidents using telemetry data

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Open Telemetry Collectors, Exporters, Processors, SDKs
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering
• Internal Developer Platforms, High-volume Data Pipelines
• Streaming & Event Processing, Buffering and Backpressure Management

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build observability platforms and services
• Develop telemetry pipelines and instrumentation libraries
• Implement Open Telemetry solutions
• Improve reliability, debuggability, and operational visibility
• Define observability standards and best practices
• Optimize telemetry systems for scale, cost, and reliability
• Collaborate with Application, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and SRE teams

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong Observability Tools Expertise (Datadog, Dynatrace, Open Telemetry)
• Software Development Experience (Golang/Python/Java)
• Platform / Cloud Engineering Background
• Kubernetes & Distributed Systems Knowledge
• Automation and AIOps Mindset
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments