Senior Observability and Monitoring Engineer
Core
Design, migrate, and operate a self-hosted observability stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, Mimir, Grafana) to replace Datadog, ensuring compliance with local regulations and SOC2/SIEM integration.
Role type
Senior IC Observability and Monitoring Engineer
Builds
Company-wide monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms for a FinTech company
Domain
FinTech, Observability, Compliance (SOC2/SIEM)
Required skills
Kubernetes, Terraform, Linux, Networking, Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure), Data Pipelines, Observability Platforms
Preferred skills
OpenTelemetry, Kafka, ClickHouse, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Mimir, Elastic Stack, SIEM, Service Mesh (Istio)
Technologies
Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitOps (FluxCD/ArgoCD), Kafka, ClickHouse, Mimir, Grafana, Elastic Enterprise, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Istio
Responsibilities
Build and operate the new observability platform on Kubernetes; Automate infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps; Troubleshoot platform end-to-end and plan capacity/scaling; Support decommissioning Datadog integrations; Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and Security teams; Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; Document architecture and best practices.
