20 hours ago
Rahway, NJ, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$142k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create, document, and champion a company-wide observability strategy covering metrics, traces, logs, profiles, and other telemetry.
- Design a cohesive, full-stack, product-oriented observability architecture with strong self-service capabilities.
- Rationalize and consolidate redundant observability tools into a standardized, cost-effective service.
- Partner with SRE teams on SLOs, error budgets, reliability principles, and operational excellence.
- Communicate observability strategies and technical decisions to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers and guide teams on OpenTelemetry instrumentation, monitoring, and AIOps-based incident analysis.
- Research emerging observability technologies and practices, including eBPF and OpenTelemetry.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree.
- 10+ years of experience in observability, software engineering, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Proven experience architecting and implementing large-scale technical solutions.
- Deep expertise in observability practices, telemetry collection, and tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, BigPanda, and xMatters.
- Experience creating and executing technical strategy across multiple teams or an entire organization.
- Deep practical knowledge of SRE principles, including defining, implementing, and managing SLOs and error budgets.
- Strong practical experience with the OpenTelemetry standard for instrumentation and telemetry collection.
- Experience designing solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Exceptional ability to explain complex technical concepts to executives and non-technical audiences and lead by influence.
- Experience consolidating tooling and migrating teams to a centralized platform is preferred.
- FinOps knowledge, eBPF familiarity, and an internal-platform product mindset are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, healthcare, insurance, retirement, 401(k), paid holiday, vacation, compassionate leave, and sick-day benefits.
- Remote work arrangement with 10% travel required and no relocation.
- Regular employee status with first-shift daytime work.
- Annual bonus and long-term incentive eligibility, if applicable.
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About Merck
Merck & Co. is a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company that discovers, manufactures, and sells prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products to healthcare systems, physicians, and governments worldwide. Known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, it develops products across oncology, vaccines, infectious diseases, and cardiometabolic conditions, including the cancer therapy Keytruda. Founded in 1891 and headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, it operates global R&D and manufacturing networks and is listed on the NYSE (MRK).