Senior Observability SRE Engineer — Remote/Hybrid

Capital; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Work-Life Harmony

Generous Time Off

Employee Referral Program

Health & Pension Benefits

Workation

Job summary

Capital in Warsaw is building out its observability practice and seeks a senior engineer who can own the end-to-end telemetry stack in a hybrid AWS and on‑premise environment. You will design, operate and optimize metrics, logs, and traces across Java, Python, and JS/TS services, mentor teammates, and drive reliability through dashboards, alerts and best practices.

This is a hands-on role that requires strong communication and a practical, data‑driven approach to incident response and

Qualifications

• Experience owning full observability stack end-to-end.
• Hands-on with metrics, logs, and traces in production.
• Strong knowledge of VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus.
• Experience with OpenSearch, ISM and ingest pipelines.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, GitOps, and Terraform/Ansible.
• Proficient in Bash or Python for automation; English fluency.

Responsibilities

• Own the full observability stack: metrics, logs, and traces from design to day-2 operations.
• Architect VictoriaMetrics cluster topology and related scraping/remote write setups.
• Operate OpenSearch clusters with ISM, hot-warm-cold, and ingest pipelines.
• Build OTEL Collector pipelines and instrument services across languages.
• Run Kafka as the telemetry transport and optimize throughput.
• Manage log shipping with Fluent Bit/Vector/Fluentd and standardize structured logging.
• Create Grafana dashboards and alerts that engineers actually use.
• Collaborate to improve sampling, batching, and context propagation.
• Contribute to incident response, post-mortems, and reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers on observability practices and tooling.

Skills

VictoriaMetrics

OpenSearch

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Fluent Bit

Vector

Fluentd

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Python

Java

JavaScript

English

Tools

VictoriaMetrics

OpenSearch

Data Prepper

OTEL Collector

Grafana

PromQL/SQL

Prometheus

Kafka

Grafana Loki

Job description

Capital in Warsaw is building out its observability practice and seeks a senior engineer who can own the end-to-end telemetry stack in a hybrid AWS and on‑premise environment. You will design, operate and optimize metrics, logs, and traces across Java, Python, and JS/TS services, mentor teammates, and drive reliability through dashboards, alerts and best practices.

This is a hands-on role that requires strong communication and a practical, data‑driven approach to incident response and