Operational Data & Observability Engineer

TL;DR

Operational Data & Observability Engineer: Building and evolving monitoring, logging, and observability capabilities for production environments with an accent on infrastructure reliability, scalability, and performance. Focus on designing enterprise observability strategies, managing operational data pipelines, and enabling data-driven operational excellence across engineering teams.

Location: Must be based in the US (Hybrid or remote arrangements available)

Salary: $145,000 - $180,000 USD

Company

Nscale provides operational intelligence and infrastructure solutions to keep platforms running at scale.

What you will do

• Design and implement enterprise observability strategies across infrastructure and applications.
• Develop monitoring dashboards, alerts, and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Build and maintain centralized logging and log analysis pipelines.
• Implement distributed tracing to improve visibility across microservices.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Administer and enhance observability platforms like Datadog, Grafana, or ELK.

Requirements

• Must be based in the US
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Observability Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with modern monitoring platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Proficiency with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience with centralized logging platforms like ELK, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting microservices-based architectures.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform or Ansible.
• Familiarity with eBPF or low-level Linux performance monitoring.
• Experience building custom telemetry or ETL pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary with potential for bonus and equity.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
• Retirement plan participation.
• Collaborative environment focused on reliability and operational excellence.