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Senior Engineering Manager, Observability Engineering

Seattle, WashingtonFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the observability platform team responsible for internal telemetry infrastructure and external customer-facing debugging tools for a multi-tenant, multi-cloud execution layer.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, Observability

Builds

Internal telemetry platform (ingestion, storage, query, visualization) and external customer observability product surface.

Domain

Developer infrastructure / Observability / Distributed Systems

Required skills

Engineering team leadership, Observability roadmap ownership, Multi-tenant infrastructure operations, Cost and capacity economics, Incident response and operational excellence, Distributed systems architecture

Preferred skills

AI/LLM for anomaly detection, OpenTelemetry depth, Open-source observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.), Kubernetes internals, Vendor consolidation programs

Technologies

Prometheus, Mimir, Thanos, Cortex, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ClickHouse, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure

Responsibilities

Own the team's technical roadmap and delivery; Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership team of engineers; Own the ingestion, storage, query, and visualization path for high-cardinality telemetry; Own alerting and incident response tooling end to end; Partner with Product and SDK teams on customer-facing observability; Own the unit economics of observability including cost per ingested series and query.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management