2 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the hands-on subject matter expert for Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, log pipelines, tracing, telemetry standards, and platform templates.
- Partner with engineering teams through office hours, exemplars, pairing, and support to implement standardized instrumentation and actionable alerting.
- Own observability golden paths for logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, service onboarding, and SLI/SLO adoption.
- Improve reliability outcomes by reducing MTTR, strengthening detection and triage, maintaining runbooks, and converting recurring incidents into durable fixes.
- Integrate observability checks and telemetry guardrails into CI/CD and platform workflows in partnership with Security and Compliance.
- Define and report observability KPIs, run experiments to improve signal quality, and ship observability improvements with a product ownership mindset.
- Create cost-aware telemetry standards covering log volume, metric cardinality, sampling, retention, and telemetry spend.
- Partner with delivery, Security, and Data teams and mentor engineers on incident response, reliability signals, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on AWS experience operating production workloads.
- Deep production observability experience with Datadog and/or CloudWatch, including dashboards, monitors, alerts, log search, and correlation.
- Experience designing actionable alerts, defining and using SLIs/SLOs, and applying reliability metrics.
- Strong proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code; CloudFormation is a plus.
- Strong programming ability in Python, Go, or a similar language.
- Understanding of cloud architecture, networking, and security fundamentals.
- Preferred experience productizing observability enablement through templates, golden paths, standards, and onboarding workflows.
- Preferred experience with CI/CD at scale using GitLab pipelines and integrating reliability or telemetry guardrails into delivery workflows.
- Preferred experience with ELK or OpenSearch, ECS or EKS, RDS or Aurora, S3 or data lake patterns, MSK or Kinesis, telemetry scaling, FinOps, and relevant AWS certifications.
- Excellent communication skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, and sick leave.
- Potential bonus or incentive compensation program.
- Residence-based work or locations in Chicago, Illinois; Creve Coeur, Missouri; or Seattle, Washington.
- Application posting available until at least 10/12/26.
About Bayer
Bayer is a global life-sciences company that develops and sells prescription pharmaceuticals, consumer health brands (including Aspirin), and agricultural seeds, traits, and crop-protection products, plus digital farming tools, for patients, consumers, and farmers. It is a public company founded in 1863 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany. Bayer acquired Monsanto in 2018, making Crop Science one of its three core businesses alongside Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health.