Senior Observability Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: US

Salary: $160,000–$230,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and/or commission.

Company

Nscale provides high-performance, cost-effective GPU cloud infrastructure for AI startups and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate scalable observability systems covering metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Make architectural decisions around observability tooling, data pipelines, storage, and retention.
• Improve signal quality by reducing noise and cardinality and refining alerting practices.
• Integrate observability into services and platforms in collaboration with SRE, infrastructure, and AI/ML teams.
• Develop reusable patterns, libraries, and best practices across engineering teams.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems, evaluate tools, and mentor engineers through reviews and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 5+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or observability-focused roles.
• Experience operating and scaling observability systems in production.
• Strong understanding of metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and SLOs.
• Hands-on experience with several of Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, or Elastic.
• Production programming experience with Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability data pipelines using Kafka, Vector, Fluent Bit, or similar tools.
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure or GPU-based systems.
• Familiarity with performance monitoring for distributed systems.
• Experience improving developer experience through observability tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on role with influence over platform design and evolution.
• Culture focused on innovation, ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits may be available.
• Flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation may be available.