Staff Observability Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

Staff Observability Engineer (AWS/Datadog): Designing and maturing the observability ecosystem to provide deep visibility into system behavior and user signals with an accent on scalability, reliability, and AI-enhanced monitoring. Focus on implementing SLOs/SLIs, reducing operational toil through automation, and evolving incident management practices.

Location: Hybrid in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Salary: $170,000 - $213,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a premier mobile gaming company in the US and Canada, specializing in sports betting and iGaming.

What you will do

• Define and drive the observability strategy and roadmap across multiple teams to align with business priorities.
• Design scalable observability capabilities providing actionable insights into system health and user experience.
• Standardize best practices for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and postmortems.
• Leverage AI and automation to accelerate root cause analysis and reduce operational toil at scale.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to translate technical insights into strategic decisions.
• Mentor engineers to raise the overall reliability and observability maturity across the organization.

Requirements

• Significant experience in observability engineering, SRE, or platform engineering with a track record of cross-team impact.
• Deep expertise in monitoring and observability, specifically with hands-on experience in Datadog.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and business-aligned alerting strategies.
• Must be based in or able to work hybrid in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans including medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• 401(k) matching program up to 5%.
• Generous paid time off, sick leave, and 14 paid company holidays.
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities based on performance.
• Additional perks such as life insurance, disability insurance, and pet insurance.