Point72

Observability Engineer

Point72
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2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design observability capabilities for application health, platform performance, and user-impacting issues.
  • Build scalable telemetry collection pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Develop actionable alerting standards to reduce noise and improve incident response.
  • Partner with application and infrastructure teams to define service health indicators and production readiness practices.
  • Automate monitoring configuration, dashboard deployment, and reliability checks.
  • Analyze production incidents to identify telemetry gaps and improve detection, diagnosis, and recovery.
  • Create dashboards and reporting views for trends, capacity risks, and reliability outcomes.
  • Establish observability patterns, documentation, and self-service guidance for engineers.
  • Contribute to improving the resilience of systems supporting Point72’s investment business.

Requirements

  • 5–17 years of experience in observability, site reliability, systems engineering, production engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles.
  • Experience using an administrator such as Datadog and Python for programming.
  • Practical experience designing and operating metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboard solutions.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-based environments, containerized workloads, and modern application architectures.
  • Proficiency with at least one scripting or programming language for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
  • Experience deploying observability patterns in production environments with high availability and performance expectations.
  • Experience troubleshooting production issues across applications, networks, operating systems, and infrastructure services.
  • Working knowledge of incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of operational processes.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical issues clearly across global engineering teams.
  • Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Benefits

  • Health care benefits
  • Maternity, adoption, and related leave policies
  • Generous paternity and family care leave policies
  • Employee Assistance Program and mental wellness programs
  • Transportation support
  • Tuition assistance

Tech Stack

DatadogPython

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Point72

About Point72

1,001-5,000 employees

Point72 is a global alternative investment firm that deploys fundamental and systematic strategies across equities and other asset classes for institutional and qualified investors. The firm earns management and performance fees and also invests partner capital. Founded in 2014 by Steven A. Cohen and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, it operates a multi-manager platform with offices worldwide and a large in-house technology organization supporting research, trading, data, and risk.

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