Report to our VP of Engineering
Observability Architecture & Strategy: Define and own end-to-end observability architecture, establishing standards for instrumentation and telemetry while leading OpenTelemetry adoption.
Reliability & Operational Excellence: Use telemetry to proactively manage reliability risks, define SLIs/SLOs, and shift the organization from reactive response to proactive engineering.
Technical Leadership: Serve as a Staff-level IC providing architectural guidance and mentorship across SRE, DevOps, and application teams.
System Insight: Improve how the organization understands system behavior and detects/resolves incidents
Operational Impact: Directly influence platform uptime, customer experience, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency
Data-Driven Decisions: Enable better decision-making regarding performance, scalability, and reliability through data

Requirements

Extensive Experience: 8+ years in SRE or Platform engineering, with a proven track record of operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems.
Technical Mastery: Deep hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and observability platforms (AWS preferred), plus proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
Strategic Mindset: A systems thinker who can influence across teams without formal authority, balancing strong technical opinions with pragmatism and cost awareness.
Environment Scope: Operate across a highly distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-native environment
Architectural Standards: Define observability standards, architectures, and best practices as a Staff-level individual contributor.

Benefits

💻 Work from home with a remote-first community
🏝 Unlimited PTO (and the encouragement to use it)
📝 Student loan payback program
🏥 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you and your dependents
💸 Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
🏠 Monthly stipend toward your WFH setup, vacation, development and more
💰 Employer-sponsored 401(k) with contribution match
🏋🏻‍♀️ Subsidized ClassPass Membership
🍼 Generous Paid Parental Leave

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

OpenTelemetryKubernetesGoPythonJavaSLIsSLOsobservability architecturetelemetrycloud-native systems

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipstrategic mindsetinfluencesystems thinkingpragmatismcost awarenessdata-driven decision makingproactive engineeringoperational excellence