Staff Observability Engineer

A company is looking for a Staff Observability Engineer to build self-service observability tooling and templates for engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Develop self-service observability tools and templates to enhance engineering productivity

Lead post-incident reviews and establish operational excellence patterns

Mentor team members while improving system reliability and performance

Required Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience, particularly in scaling observability systems in a SaaS environment

Experience designing and operating monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions

Strong foundation in distributed tracing, service instrumentation, and alerting automation

Familiarity with tools such as SumoLogic, Datadog, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Ability to work independently while mentoring others and driving system resilience