Senior Platform Observability Engineer – Scale & Reliability

ICEYE; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE in Espoo, Finland is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Observability Engineer to own and evolve a production-grade observability stack across metrics, logs, and traces. You will tune alerts to SLOs/SLIs, define instrumentation standards with OpenTelemetry, and empower product teams with dashboards and runbooks to diagnose incidents quickly.

The role emphasizes long-term architectural decisions, platform as a product mindset, and collaboration across engineering.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Platform Engineering, Observability, or infrastructure roles with end-to-end ownership of a production observability stack.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python or Go) for automation, tooling, and observability.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry adoption, metric naming, structured logging and distributed tracing across multi-team systems.
• Ability to own long-term architectural decisions, including roadmap, upgrades and maintenance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English to explain complex system behavior.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve a unified production-grade observability stack for metrics, logs, and traces across teams.
• Tune alerts against clear SLOs/SLIs to reduce noise and surface real issues early.
• Define and document instrumentation standards for metric naming, labels, and tracing with OpenTelemetry.
• Help product teams diagnose incidents faster with dashboards, runbooks, and observability guidance.
• Manage the observability platform as a product with roadmap, reliability, scalability, and cost considerations.
• Provide clear technical direction for organization-wide observability and platform adoption.

Skills

Platform engineering

Observability

OpenTelemetry

SLO/SLI

Python/Go

Grafana/Prometheus

Tools

Kubernetes

Rancher

Istio

OpenTelemetry tooling

Job description

ICEYE in Espoo, Finland is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Observability Engineer to own and evolve a production-grade observability stack across metrics, logs, and traces. You will tune alerts to SLOs/SLIs, define instrumentation standards with OpenTelemetry, and empower product teams with dashboards and runbooks to diagnose incidents quickly.

The role emphasizes long-term architectural decisions, platform as a product mindset, and collaboration across engineering.