Observability Platform Team Lead
Core
Define and lead the observability platform strategy, building telemetry foundations (instrumentation, pipelines, tooling) to help engineering teams detect, investigate, and resolve production issues quickly.
Role type
Senior IC Platform Team Lead (Observability/SRE)
Builds
Telemetry foundation, instrumentation standards, pipelines, and self-service tools for observability
Domain
Cloud-native backend engineering, distributed systems, SRE practices
Required skills
Backend engineering, distributed systems, OpenTelemetry, SRE fundamentals, cloud platforms, database monitoring, Kubernetes, AWS
Preferred skills
Java, Spring Boot, influence without authority, cost optimization
Technologies
OpenTelemetry, OTLP, Collector, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka, Java, Spring Boot
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a high-performing team; define observability strategy and standards; drive OpenTelemetry adoption across services; own telemetry pipeline reliability and cost efficiency; improve alert quality and reduce noise; monitor data stores and messaging systems; implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets)
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
