Senior Observability Platform Engineer

OpenCV

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇨🇭 Switzerland

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About the role

Configure, operate, and enhance observability platforms and frameworks (Clickhouse, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry Collector + custom processors)
Manage and evolve core observability infrastructure supporting engineering teams and a customer-facing portal
Handle telemetry at scale (more than 20 TB per day from 10,000+ nodes including Linux hosts, k8s clusters, VMs)
Drive organization-wide adoption of observability best-practices for monitoring, logging, and tracing
Develop and maintain automated solutions for monitoring, alerting, and incident response
Collaborate with engineering teams to provide scalable observability solutions and understand their needs
Optimize system performance, ensure high availability, and perform capacity planning and cost optimization
Experiment with and integrate new observability tools and OpenTelemetry Collector to enhance telemetry collection and analysis

Proven track record managing observability stacks (Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Tempo, Loki, Clickhouse)
Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and hands-on cluster management
Experience writing and maintaining Helm charts
Experience with GitOps, CI/CD and continuous delivery practices
Expertise in Docker containerization and orchestration
Proficiency in Linux system administration, scripting and automation
5+ years of experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related role
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Demonstrated experience managing large-scale infrastructures and observability platforms
Coding experience in Golang or similar language (desirable)
Open source contributions in Golang or similar language (desirable)
Knowledge or contribution to OpenTelemetry Collector (desirable)
Strong communication skills and ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Quick learner and collaborative mindset
Customer-focused approach