Observability Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable observability solutions for cloud-native environments

• Own monitoring across AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) environments, covering clusters and workloads

• Operate and maintain self-hosted monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo)

• Manage and optimize DataDog (metrics, logs, APM, alerts, cost monitoring)

• Improve observability architecture to support high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance

• Implement monitoring cost optimization strategies (log/trace sampling, retention policies, storage optimization)

• Automate observability infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, etc.)

• Integrate monitoring and alerting into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions is an advantage)

• Support capacity planning and performance tuning initiatives

• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and Engineering teams to embed observability best practices

• Drive continuous improvement of monitoring standards, tooling, and reliability practices
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in monitoring / observability engineering within cloud-native environments

• Strong experience with AWS services 5+ years of hands-on experience working with Kubernetes

• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes monitoring, including metrics, logs, and traces for clusters and workloads, alerting, SLOs, SLIs, and dashboards.

• Proven experience operating and maintaining self-hosted monitoring stacks, advantage: Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo Experience designing or improving observability architectures at scale

• Experience with DataDog (metrics, logs, APM, alerts, and cost monitoring)

• Strong understanding of high availability, scalability, and fault-tolerant architectures

• Experience with monitoring cost optimization, including log and trace sampling strategies, storage and retention optimization

• Ability to automate monitoring tasks using Infrastructure as Code and scripting (Terraform, Helm, etc.)

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating monitoring into deployment workflows (GitHub Actions is an advantage).

• Experience with capacity planning and performance tuning

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• Ability to work independently and take ownership of complex systems

• Good communication skills, able to collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and other teams

• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access