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Lead Observability Platform Engineer

United IT Solutions

 

Irving, TX, USA

Posted On: 15+ days ago
Experience: 7+ years
Availability: Remote
Openings: 1
Category: Observability Engineer
Tenure: No Preference/Any
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Description

You will design, build, and operate large-scale observability services processing billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. This role is remote.

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate core observability platform services using Go, Java (Spring Boot), and Node.js.
  • Lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, including client libraries, semantic conventions, and Collector/agent strategy.
  • Architect and scale high-throughput, fault-tolerant telemetry pipelines with a focus on performance and cost efficiency.
  • Develop self-service observability capabilities to simplify onboarding and troubleshooting for application teams.
  • Implement end-to-end monitoring of the observability platform itself, defining SLOs, health checks, and alerting.

Required Skills

  • 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
  • 5+ years of experience with observability practices, including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, and incident management.
  • 5+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
  • 5+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry, including OTLP, semantic conventions, and instrumentation patterns.
  • 5+ years with cloud-native and containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
  • 5+ years working with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • 3+ years designing and scaling distributed, high-volume data pipelines.
  • 3+ years working with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends (e.g., Loki, Tempo, Mimir).
  • 3+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with service meshes and networking technologies such as Envoy and Istio.
  • Experience integrating or operating commercial observability platforms (Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics).
  • Experience with streaming and data platforms such as Kafka, Pulsar, or similar technologies.

Education

Any Graduate

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