Senior Platform Engineer

WeightWatchers

Senior Platform Engineer creating observability architecture and improving incident response at WeightWatchers. Collaborating with teams to implement logging, metrics, and tracing solutions for cloud services.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerGrafanaKafkaPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

design logging, metrics, and tracing patterns that the entire engineering organization depends on
reduce toil, surface actionable signals, and turn chaos into clarity
report to Head of Platform Engineering as an individual contributor
architect and implement a modern observability stack

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or similar infrastructure role
Deep expertise in at least one observability domain (metrics, logging, tracing, or APM)
Experience with agent configuration and instrumentation (New Relic, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent)
Track record of building (not just maintaining) monitoring/alerting systems
Comfortable making opinionated architectural decisions with incomplete information
Strong systems thinking—you understand tradeoffs between managed vs. open-source, complexity vs. coverage.
AWS and containerized environments (EKS, Docker)
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Kafka or async message queues (understanding log/metric pipeline architecture)
RDS experience (database monitoring, slow query logs)
Open-source observability stack (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, Jaeger)

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive benefits package
annual bonus program

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Hard Skills & Tools

MetricsLoggingTracingAPMMonitoring SystemsOpen-source Observability StackKafkaRDSSystems ThinkingArchitectural Decision Making

Soft Skills

Strong Problem Solving