Senior Platform Engineer (Observability)
Core
Design, develop, and maintain monitoring and observability solutions to ensure the health and visibility of core applications and infrastructure in a finance technology organization.
Role type
Senior IC platform engineer (observability)
Builds
Enterprise Monitoring Center solutions, alerting systems, dashboards, and automation for finance teams
Domain
Finance technology, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems
Required skills
Instrumentation and telemetry development, alerting system design, observability best practices (metrics, logs, traces), OpenTelemetry integration, dashboard creation, automation scripting, cloud monitoring (AWS/Azure), time-series data visualization, Infrastructure as Code, REST APIs, problem-solving in high-pressure environments
Preferred skills
Time-series data querying and manipulation, ServiceNow integration, capacity planning, performance tuning
Technologies
Grafana, OpsRamp, AppDynamics, Elastic Stack, BigPanda, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, Python, C family, JavaScript
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain instrumentation, telemetry, and alerting for the Enterprise Monitoring Center; Implement Observability best practices across critical systems; Integrate and manage OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing; Collaborate with development teams to define observability requirements; Define and maintain standardized alert payloads and optimize thresholds; Create and maintain intuitive dashboards for the Enterprise Monitoring Center; Develop and maintain automation scripts to enhance monitoring efficiency
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC (via careerplan.io/jobs/R2609-52513-senior-platform-engineer-observability-at-myhrhome)
