Senior Observability Engineer
Rent the Runway2 months ago
Galway, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- 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 is a fashion rental and resale platform offering designer apparel and accessories via subscriptions, one-time rentals, and pre-owned purchases. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Brooklyn, the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ. It builds e-commerce and reverse-logistics technology to operate a large shared clothing inventory, partnering with hundreds of brands to serve customers across the United States.