Senior Observability Engineer

Furō; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunities for career growth

Health and well-being support

Fun social events

Hybrid working arrangements

Job summary

A dynamic tech startup based in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer for a 6-month contract. This role involves designing and implementing observability solutions using Datadog, working closely with engineering teams to enhance telemetry and monitoring. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in SRE or DevOps and proficiency with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures. This role supports a hybrid work environment and emphasizes autonomous work and team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Datadog including dashboards and APM.
• Experience implementing observability frameworks including metrics and logging.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions using Datadog.
• Lead the design and implementation of dashboards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve telemetry coverage.

Skills

Datadog

Kubernetes

Cloud-native architectures (AWS)

CI/CD pipelines

Microservices architectures

Problem-solving skills

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Join Furō as a Senior Observability Engineer!

6 Month initial fixed term contract

High-impact transformation role

Hands-on delivery focus

Open to work location

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Observability Engineer to join a high-profile program delivering a modern cloud platform for a large-scale enterprise environment.

This role will play a critical part in shaping and accelerating the observability capability, moving the platform from reactive monitoring to a proactive, data-driven “single pane of glass” view across environments, services, and business-critical workflows.

You will work closely with platform, DevOps, and architecture teams to define and implement observability standards, dashboards, and telemetry strategies using Datadog.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering, ideally in complex, distributed environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Datadog (dashboards, APM, logs, alerting).
• Experience working with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and cloud‑native architectures (AWS).
• Experience implementing observability frameworks including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing (e.g. OpenTelemetry).
• Experience defining and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and reliability metrics.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience working with microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to instrument services and improve telemetry coverage.
• Experience translating Non‑Functional Requirements (NFRs) into measurable signals and dashboards.
• Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to operate in fast‑paced, evolving environments.
• You are proactive, can work autonomously, and take ownership of outcomes and delivery.
• You have a strong focus on data‑driven decision making, continuous improvement, and learning through iteration.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement end‑to‑end observability solutions using Datadog (metrics, logs, traces).
• Lead the design and implementation of environment readiness and platform health dashboards.
• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs and observability standards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to instrument services and improve telemetry coverage.
• Partner with platform and SRE teams to identify gaps in monitoring and reliability.
• Translate Non‑Functional Requirements (NFRs) into measurable signals and dashboards.
• Support connectivity, dependency, and SaaS monitoring across the platform ecosystem.
• Contribute to performance analysis and profiling insights to improve system efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership in observability architecture and best practices.

Job Benefits

• Dynamic start‑up type work environment – flat structure and opportunity to work with a wide array of technologies/platforms.
• Work in an environment that welcomes ideas and embraces experimentation.
• Support you to put your health, well‑being and family first.
• Opportunities for career growth and learning.
• High level of autonomy with an ample support network.
• Fun social events.
• Get the tech you need and swag.
• Hybrid working arrangements (hours, location etc.). Dependent on client needs.
• And more!

If you're up for a new challenge, please apply directly by clicking on the "Apply" button.

We have highlighted key skills that are important, but we also know that the best person may not tick all these skills so, if you have the experience and capabilities for a good portion of the role, apply.

We're also happy to answer any questions you may have, so connect with us on LinkedIn and send us a DM!

Note to recruiters: respectfully, no recruiters needed, thanks for your interest but our Furō team has got this.