Staff Observability Engineer
You will design, build, and mature observability capabilities that give teams actionable insight into system health, performance, reliability, and user experience. You will standardize monitoring, alerting, incident management, and postmortem practices; lead reliability initiatives; automate root-cause analysis; optimize platforms; and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the observability strategy and roadmap across teams.
- Design and improve scalable observability capabilities.
- Standardize monitoring, alerting, incident management, and postmortem practices.
- Evolve incident management, on-call practices, and post-incident learning.
- Lead cross-team reliability initiatives and resolve systemic risks.
- Use automation and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate root-cause analysis and reduce operational toil.
- Translate observability insights into strategic roadmap decisions.
- Detect, prevent, and mitigate large-scale issues using system and user signals.
- Optimize observability platforms for cost, scalability, and sustainability.
- Mentor engineers and improve organizational reliability and observability maturity.
Requirements
- Significant hands-on experience in observability engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or related roles.
- Expertise in monitoring and observability with hands-on Datadog experience.
- Experience driving observability or reliability strategy across teams or domains.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform.
- Understanding of distributed systems principles and trade-offs.
- Experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, alerting strategies, and user-centric metrics.
- Software engineering proficiency in Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience building scalable systems, tooling, and automation in complex codebases.
- Experience driving large-scale automation and reducing recurring operational issues.
- Ability to translate technical signals into business and customer impact.
- Communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Health plans
- Fertility and family-planning programs
- Mental health support
- Fitness benefits
- Paid time off
- Sick leave
- Annual bonus opportunities
- Long-term incentive opportunities
- 401(k) matching up to 5%
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Short-term and long-term incentive compensation
- Cash bonuses
- Stock program participation
- 14 paid company holidays
- Paid sick time