Senior Observability Engineer
Core
Building a modern, AI-enabled observability platform to deliver scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient monitoring across Moderna's technology landscape, including applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and AI/LLM systems.
Role type
Senior Individual Contributor Observability Engineer
Builds
Enterprise observability platform, telemetry pipelines, logging solutions, and AI observability capabilities for LLM agents and workflows.
Domain
Biotechnology / Pharmaceutical / Cloud Infrastructure / AI Observability
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Observability platform design and operation, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, metrics/logs/traces pipelines, SLO/SLI frameworks, cloud-native and hybrid environments, automation and infrastructure-as-code, incident management integration, cost optimization, Python, Terraform, Ansible.
Preferred skills
Biotech/pharmaceutical/regulated environment experience, AI observability tools (Langfuse, Arize, Phoenix), monitoring AI agents and LLM applications, enterprise logging platforms, PagerDuty/ServiceNow/Jira integration, AWS/Azure/Kubernetes certifications.
Technologies
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Elastic, Datadog, Dynatrace, Langfuse, Arize, Phoenix, LangSmith, Grafana Loki, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Bash, ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty, AWS, Azure.
Responsibilities
Own enterprise observability platform strategy, governance, and roadmap; design and build scalable observability architectures for distributed and AI systems; develop and optimize telemetry pipelines for metrics, traces, and logs; establish enterprise standards for monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and proactive incident detection; enable self-service observability capabilities; implement AI observability solutions for LLM agents and agentic workflows; lead enterprise logging strategy and design cost-efficient logging solutions; integrate observability with incident management and operational workflows; optimize on-call processes and provide real-time telemetry during incidents; develop dashboards and executive reporting; produce documentation and runbooks; participate in post-incident reviews.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC