Lead Observability Engineer

A company is looking for a Lead Observability Engineer to own and rebuild their observability strategy across agentic systems and SaaS infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end observability strategy, defining standards, tools, and patterns for reliable visibility

Design and implement correlation models linking agent behavior, LLM interactions, and SaaS telemetry

Unify observability tooling across teams, ensuring metrics, logs, and traces flow into a central platform

Required Qualifications

6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Observability Engineering roles, with 2+ years in a leadership capacity

Deep knowledge of observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Datadog

Experience with agentic / LLM-based systems and orchestration frameworks

Strong understanding of instrumenting and tracing AI / LLM workflows with infrastructure telemetry

Proven ability to define cross-team standards and influence engineering culture