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
Engineer Observability • Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States