AI-Powered Observability Engineer

10 Ancestry.com Operations Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Ancestry is seeking a part-time Observability Engineer to join our Observability team. You will develop and maintain OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation migration tools across languages (Java, Python, Node.js, .NET) and support real-time monitoring.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, dashboard migrations, validation, and collaboration with security and platform teams. Flexible location within the United States and a 20-hour weekly commitment for six months.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in CS or a related field.
• Strong Python development skills and code quality.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with observability concepts including logs, metrics, and traces.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI-driven migration tooling to move instrumentation to OpenTelemetry standards.
• Create validation and testing for metrics and traces with dashboards.
• Build CLI tools and self-service migration utilities with guides.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and platform teams to deliver solutions.
• Present work in team demos and document runbooks.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

AI-assisted development

Observability concepts

AWS Cloud services

SQL

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Datadog

Kubernetes

Docker

CloudWatch

Job description

Ancestry is seeking a part-time Observability Engineer to join our Observability team. You will develop and maintain OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation migration tools across languages (Java, Python, Node.js, .NET) and support real-time monitoring.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, dashboard migrations, validation, and collaboration with security and platform teams. Flexible location within the United States and a 20-hour weekly commitment for six months.