Sr. Observability Engineer

1 month ago

Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the enterprise observability vision, standards, principles, and roadmap.
Lead implementation, optimization, and adoption of Dynatrace SaaS and its platform capabilities.
Establish scalable telemetry architecture and OpenTelemetry standards.
Design observability solutions for Kubernetes, containers, microservices, distributed applications, and public cloud environments.
Apply AIOps and agentic operations for detection, event correlation, diagnosis, automation, operational response, and continuous improvement.
Develop service health models, SLOs, dashboards, alerting strategies, telemetry governance, and observability best practices.
Collaborate with engineering, site reliability, platform, security, infrastructure, operations, and architecture teams.
Guide migration from legacy monitoring to modern observability models and enterprise platform transformation.
Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, solve complex problems, and shape architecture and engineering standards.

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
8+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
Deep hands-on experience with Dynatrace SaaS and recent Dynatrace platform capabilities and innovations.
Strong experience with OpenTelemetry, telemetry instrumentation, collection, and architecture practices.
Experience designing and implementing observability solutions for cloud-native infrastructure, distributed systems, and modern application environments.
Hands-on experience implementing AIOps and/or agentic operations capabilities.
Strong understanding of metrics, logs, traces, event correlation, service health, alerting models, and operational intelligence.
Ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions, and drive adoption across teams and stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred: experience with enterprise-scale observability transformation initiatives; AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform; SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, incident response, and operational resilience; automation, orchestration, and remediation workflows; additional observability platforms or ecosystems; and Python, Go, Bash, or JavaScript.

501-1,000 employees