Senior Observability Engineer
Location : Remote
Employment Type : 6 Month Extendable Contract
I am seeking a highly experienced Senior Observability Engineer to lead the development and implementation of a unified observability strategy across a modern, cloud-native technology stack. This is a strategic role focused on enabling full-stack visibility, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability across distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design and implement a comprehensive observability blueprint covering frontend (React / Next.js), backend (API / GraphQL), Kubernetes infrastructure, and alert routing.
- Enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) and frontend metrics, linking browser performance to backend traces.
- Instrument backend services to trace user actions and identify performance bottlenecks.
- Define and standardize SLO / SLI templates for latency, availability, and error rates across environments.
- Develop and manage alerting strategies, including severity levels, team-based routing, and escalation workflows.
- Standardize observability practices across services, including labels, dashboards, alert rules, and collector configurations.
- Operate OpenTelemetry and Grafana Alloy pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces, with sampling and cardinality controls.
- Maintain observability configurations as code using GitOps tools (Helm, Kustomize, Terraform).
- Deliver “golden dashboards” for frontend UX, API performance, and Kubernetes / service health.
Required Experience & Skills :
Minimum 7 years in Observability, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Backend roles with production systems.Strong Kubernetes expertise, including agent deployment and metadata enrichment.Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry for Go, Node.js, and browser instrumentation.RUM experience with Datadog (preferred), Grafana, or Dynatrace.Advanced skills in Prometheus / Grafana or Datadog, including histograms, recording rules, and alerting.Proven ability to reduce alert noise and standardize SLOs across teams.Ideal Candidate Profile :
Strategic thinker with a passion for clean observability architecture.Strong communicator and collaborator across engineering and infrastructure teams.Comfortable working in a GitOps-driven environment.Experience in Fintech, Crypto, or E-Commerce is advantageous but not essential.