Senior Observability Engineer
Rent the RunwayResponsibilities
- Lead the architecture, delivery, and continuous improvement of observability solutions using platforms such as Splunk Observability Cloud and Google Cloud Observability.
- Build scalable, automated telemetry pipelines with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Define standards and best practices for metrics, traces, logs, events, SLIs, error budgets, alerting, and instrumentation.
- Collaborate with application, platform, security, and compliance teams to integrate observability throughout the development lifecycle.
- Lead AI-assisted development and debugging workflows for instrumentation, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Participate in SRE and platform on-call rotations and improve observability tooling, alert design, and incident response.
- Provide technical guidance, reusable frameworks, documentation, and training to engineers across teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles with deep specialization in observability and telemetry design.
- Subject-matter expertise in observability tools and practices within cloud-native, distributed systems environments.
- Demonstrated delivery of high-impact technical projects improving system visibility, operational risk, or incident response at scale.
- Deep knowledge of metrics, logs, traces, and events across product services and infrastructure components.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD tooling, and service instrumentation in Kubernetes-based environments.
- Strong understanding of system-level design, service mesh architectures, asynchronous message flows, and distributed systems behavior.
- Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, problem-solving, consensus-building, and structured root cause analysis skills.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off, including annual leave, paid bereavement leave, and family sick leave.
- Universal paid parental leave for both parents and a flexible return-to-work program.
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service.
- Competitive stakeholder pension.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and dependent care coverage from the first day of employment.
- Company-wide events and outings.
- Hybrid work in the Galway, Ireland office 2–3 days per week, with the option to work remotely 2 days per week.
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About Rent the Runway
Rent the Runway (RTR) is transforming the way we get dressed by pioneering the world’s first Closet in the Cloud. Founded in 2009, RTR has disrupted the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by inspiring women with a more joyful, sustainable and financially-savvy way to feel their best every day. As the ultimate destination for circular fashion, the brand now offers infinite points of access to its shared closet via a fully customizable subscription to fashion, one-time rental or ownership. RTR offers designer apparel and accessories from hundreds of brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100” most influential people in the world and as one of People magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”