Site Observability Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 annually

Company

Technology consulting and software development organization delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design and operate enterprise observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, events, and synthetic monitoring.
• Architect highly available Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog deployments.
• Define service instrumentation standards, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, dashboards, and actionable alerting strategies.
• Operate large-scale time-series and log storage while balancing retention, query performance, and cost.
• Build self-service tooling, libraries, templates, and documentation that support observability adoption across product teams.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams on incident readiness, CI/CD integration, canary analysis, and progressive delivery.

Requirements

• Must be located in the United States.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least five years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles; the position listing specifies six or more years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and a major 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, networking, containers, high-throughput telemetry pipelines, CI/CD, and incident management tools.

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.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.
• Collaboration with engineering, SRE, platform, and product teams.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, or H-1B transfer candidates; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.