Senior SRE: Observability & AI-Driven Platform Reliability

K1 Industries; Sydney, Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

K1 Industries is seeking a senior engineer to lead reliability and observability across our product landscape. You will help set technical direction and design standardised telemetry systems enabling agentic-first development practices.

Joining the central Observability team, you will collaborate with remote engineers across Australia and New Zealand to standardise monitoring, data pipelines, alerting, and performance benchmarks while supporting product squads to ship reliable software.

Qualifications

• Experience managing distributed tracing, metrics, and log aggregation in large cloud environments.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry standards and vendor-agnostic instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Build standardised data pipelines and telemetry layer architectures for intelligent workflows.
• Implement OpenTelemetry standards and instrumentation across distributed applications.
• Drive platform efficiency, cost optimisation, and monitoring performance across cloud systems.
• Design automated alerting and reliability scorecards to streamline incident response.

Skills

Distributed tracing

Metrics collection

Log aggregation

OpenTelemetry

Distributed systems

AI tooling interest

Job description

K1 Industries is seeking a senior engineer to lead reliability and observability across our product landscape. You will help set technical direction and design standardised telemetry systems enabling agentic-first development practices.

Joining the central Observability team, you will collaborate with remote engineers across Australia and New Zealand to standardise monitoring, data pipelines, alerting, and performance benchmarks while supporting product squads to ship reliable software.