Observability Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $89,000–$110,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms.
• Build and manage collection agents, telemetry pipelines, long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows.
• Improve observability usability, signal quality, and operational return on investment.
• Operate high-cardinality, high-throughput metrics and log pipelines.
• Integrate observability platforms with CI/CD and incident management tooling.
• Translate telemetry into actionable insights for engineering and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles; the position listing specifies 6+ years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one commercial observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, structured logging, SLOs, error budgets, and SRE principles.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java, plus experience with Linux internals, networking, and container platforms.
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.

Nice to have

• Experience with Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Loki, or Tempo at scale.
• Contributions to OpenTelemetry or other observability open-source projects.
• Familiarity with eBPF-based observability tooling.
• Experience with observability cost optimization or regulated environments requiring audit-grade logging.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.