Observability Engineer (Cloud)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$160,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms covering 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 platforms while balancing retention, query performance, and cost.
• Build self-service tooling, libraries, templates, documentation, and runbooks to support observability adoption.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams on incident readiness, CI/CD integration, canary analysis, progressive delivery, and post-incident improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10 or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one 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 high-cardinality metrics and high-throughput log pipelines.
• Experience with CI/CD and incident management tooling, Linux internals, networking, and container platforms.

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 and observability cost optimization.
• Experience with regulated environments and audit-grade logging requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• 100% remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established consulting and software development organization.
• Equal employment opportunity and a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume for consideration.
• New H-1B visa petitions are not sponsored; U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.