Observability Engineer

Observability Engineer - RemoteBright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.Job Title: Observability EngineerLocation: 100% Remote (U.S.)Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2Salary Range: $100,000–$160,000 AnnuallyExperience Required: 12+ yearsSponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.Job Summary:We are looking for an Observability Engineer to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that give engineering teams confidence in the systems they run. The role spans the full observability stack — from collection agents and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows — with a strong focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI. The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands the trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and can translate noisy telemetry into actionable insight for both engineers and business stakeholders.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, events, and synthetic monitoringArchitect Prometheus / Thanos / Mimir, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog deployments for high availability and scaleDevelop standards for service instrumentation, including OpenTelemetry adoption, metric naming, label cardinality, and structured logging conventionsDefine and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, and build the dashboards and alerts that operationalize themBuild alerting strategies that minimize noise, surface actionable signals, and integrate cleanly with on-call workflows in PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or similar toolsOperate large-scale time-series and log storage platforms, balancing retention, query performance, and costDesign distributed tracing pipelines and help teams use traces to diagnose latency and reliability issuesDevelop self-service tooling, paved-road libraries, and templates that make adoption of observability standards easy for product teamsDrive cost management and label-cardinality discipline across the observability estateLead incident response readiness improvements through better dashboards, alerting hygiene, and post-incident analysis toolingPartner with SRE and platform teams to integrate observability into deployment pipelines, canary analysis, and progressive delivery workflowsEvaluate and recommend observability vendors and open-source tools based on cost, capability, and operational maturityMentor engineering teams on observability fundamentals, debugging techniques, and SLO-driven operationsMaintain documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks for the observability platformRequired QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related fieldFive or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability rolesDeep hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, or SplunkStrong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured loggingProficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Go, Python, or JavaExperience operating high-cardinality, high-throughput metrics and log pipelinesStrong understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and SRE principlesExperience integrating observability with CI/CD and incident management toolingSolid grasp of Linux internals, networking, and container platformsExcellent communication and collaboration skillsPreferred QualificationsExperience with Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Loki, or Tempo at scaleContributions to OpenTelemetry or observability open-source projectsFamiliarity with eBPF-based observability toolingExperience driving observability cost optimization initiativesExposure to regulated environments with audit-grade logging requirementsHow to ApplyWould you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to venkat.r@bvteck.com or contact us at (908) 505-3899. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) StatementBright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. 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