Lead Site Reliability Engineer (OpenTelemetry)

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Site Reliability Engineer with strong experience in Observability Architecture to support migrations from third-party observability tools to the SAP One Observability target stack.

Responsibilities

• Plan and technically lead migration front runners
• Design telemetry flows for metrics, traces and logs using OpenTelemetry
• Coordinate with SAP LoBs, BTP, GCO, SRE and Operations teams
• Identify feature gaps, risks and architectural blockers
• Prepare architecture documents, decision logs, best practices and migration-readiness reports
• Present progress and recommendations to technical and management stakeholders
• Own end-to-end solution design, including technical decisions, gap/risk analysis and documentation
• Lead teams and workstreams, coordinating across platform, SRE, operations and application teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in observability architecture and implementation
• At least 1 year of relevant leadership experience
• Strong expertise in OpenTelemetry, including Collector configuration, receivers/processors/exporters, pipelines, routing and deployment patterns
• Proficiency in designing telemetry flows across all three signals: metrics, logs and traces
• Production-level implementation experience with Prometheus and Grafana (beyond dashboard-only usage)
• Background in cloud-native monitoring, telemetry routing and observability platforms
• Proven experience leading complex technical migrations, ideally from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (New Relic, Datadog, etc.) to an OpenTelemetry/cloud-native architecture
• Capability to lead cross-functional technical teams across platform, SRE and operations
• Strong architecture, stakeholder-management and communication skills
• English proficiency at an Upper-Intermediate level (B2) or higher

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and deploying OpenTelemetry Collector and Prometheus in Kubernetes environments
• Knowledge of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tools
• Experience with Jaeger, Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
• SAP BTP experience

Benefits

We gather like-minded people:

• Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
• Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
• Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
• Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
• Business-driven relocation opportunities

We provide growth opportunities:

• Career development programs
• Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
• Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes

We cover it all:

• Stable pay
• Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
• Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
• Corporate, social and well-being events

Please, note:

• Benefits listed above are available to employees only
• We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
• We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively