Senior Engineer - Observability Platform
Core
Design, build, and operate large-scale observability services processing billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily for Fortune-6 scale engineering teams.
Role type
Senior IC backend platform engineer (observability)
Builds
Standardized, frictionless instrumentation and telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) across on-prem, hybrid, and public cloud environments.
Domain
Healthcare technology / Cloud-native observability
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Java (Spring Boot), Python, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helmcharts, Grafana, PostgreSQL, distributed data pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Preferred skills
Service meshes (Envoy, Istio), commercial observability platforms (Datadog, New Relic), streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar), time-series/NoSQL databases, chaos engineering, security-aware design
Technologies
Go, Java, Python, Spring Boot, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helmcharts, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kafka, Pulsar, ClickHouse, Bigtable, Cassandra, Envoy, Istio, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, GoAlert
Responsibilities
Develop custom software and core observability platform services; lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry; design and scale high-throughput telemetry pipelines; implement self-service observability capabilities; monitor platform health and define SLOs; collaborate on reliability standards and incident response; automate operational workflows; provide technical leadership and mentorship.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with architectural influence
