Senior Platform Engineer (Observability)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Observability): Building and operating a centralized observability platform with an accent on migrating the stack to OpenTelemetry to reduce vendor lock-in. Focus on implementing instrumentation, collectors, and pipelines while promoting observability standards across distributed engineering teams.

Location: Berlin

Company

hirify.global is the company behind the PlayStation brand, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to millions of players globally.

What you will do

• Lead the company-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry to reduce vendor lock-in across observability tooling like Datadog and Grafana.
• Design, build, and operate a centralized observability platform covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and profiling.
• Establish and promote observability best practices and standards across engineering teams.
• Develop tooling and automation to provide a high-quality self-service experience for internal engineers.
• Collaborate with distributed engineering teams across Berlin, California, and Australia.
• Mentor and guide engineers on observability principles and technical design decisions.

Requirements

• 5–6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (instrumentation, collectors, exporters, and pipelines).
• Proven experience building and operating production-grade observability platforms.
• Development proficiency in Go (preferred), Java, or Python.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, container-based infrastructure, and AWS.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.

Nice to have

• Contributions to the OpenTelemetry open source ecosystem or other CNCF projects.
• Experience with Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, or Cribl.
• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollout.
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience, preferably with Terraform.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators and extending the Kubernetes platform.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact role with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
• Opportunity to work on strategic, company-wide infrastructure initiatives.
• Collaboration within a globally distributed, diverse engineering environment.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and fairness.