Senior Observability Engineer
Rent the Runway5 days ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, delivery, and continuous improvement of observability solutions.
- Build scalable, automated telemetry pipelines using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
- Define and evolve best practices for metrics, traces, logs, and events.
- Collaborate with application, platform, security, and compliance teams to integrate observability.
- Drive the definition and adoption of internal standards for service-level indicators and system health.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted development and debugging workflows.
- Identify and resolve cross-functional observability challenges.
- Participate in SRE/Platform on-call rotations.
- Provide technical guidance to engineers across teams.
- Champion a culture of reliability through enablement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
- Deep specialization in observability systems and telemetry design.
- Recognized subject-matter expert in observability tools and practices.
- Proven track record of delivering high-impact technical projects.
- Deep knowledge of metrics, logs, traces, and events.
- Hands-on experience managing telemetry pipelines with Terraform.
- Strong understanding of system-level design principles.
- Adept at communicating complex technical ideas clearly.
- Operates with ownership and curiosity, identifying failure modes.
- A natural collaborator who fosters alignment and builds consensus.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off, including annual leave and family sick leave.
- Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents with a flexible return to work program.
- Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service.
- Competitive Stakeholder Pension.
- Comprehensive health, dental care, and dependents care from day 1.
- Company-wide events and outings.
- Hybrid Work requiring 2-3 days per week in the Galway office.