Senior/Staff Platform Observability Engineer
Core
Build and evolve the observability foundation across metrics, logs, and traces to make ICEYE's systems visible, actionable, and reliable, enabling teams to detect issues early and operate services with confidence.
Role type
Senior/Staff Platform Observability Engineer
Builds
Unified production-grade observability stack (metrics, logs, traces), trusted alerting, instrumentation standards, and self-service dashboards for engineering teams.
Domain
Space intelligence / Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations / Platform Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
End-to-end ownership of production observability stacks (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir/Prometheus), OpenTelemetry adoption, SLO/SLI definition and management, backend language proficiency (Python or Go), distributed tracing, structured logging, metric and label design, alert tuning, platform roadmap ownership, technical direction.
Preferred skills
Kubernetes-native observability patterns, service mesh telemetry (Istio), eBPF-based tooling, hybrid environment management (AWS, vSphere/VxRail), cost and cardinality management on large-scale telemetry pipelines, incident response leadership, mentoring engineers.
Technologies
Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Python, Go, Kubernetes, Istio, AWS, vSphere, VxRail, eBPF
Responsibilities
Own and continuously improve a unified, production-grade observability stack covering metrics, logs, and traces; Build and maintain trusted alerting by tuning alerts against clear SLOs/SLIs; Define, document, and drive adoption of instrumentation standards; Enable product teams to diagnose and resolve incidents faster through well-designed dashboards and runbooks; Run the observability platform like a product, owning its roadmap, interfaces, reliability, scalability, and cost; Provide clear technical direction for observability across the engineering organisation.
Seniority
Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with strategic direction
