Lead Observability Engineer (Fully Remote)

EverOps, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Unlimited PTO

Equity ownership

401K plan

Healthcare

Growth opportunities

Job summary

EverOps is seeking a lead for observability initiatives to assess maturity, validate telemetry metrics, and guide the migration to AWS-native observability based on OpenTelemetry.

The role is 100% remote with unlimited PTO, equity ownership, 401K with company match, sponsored healthcare, and strong opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Lead the observability maturity assessment and validate telemetry volumes, retention, sampling, and cardinality.
• Design and execute the migration to AWS-native observability built on OpenTelemetry, proving performance parity.
• Aim to reduce cost while maintaining or improving telemetry effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Lead the observability maturity assessment and validate telemetry volumes, retention, sampling, and cardinality.
• Design and execute the migration to AWS-native observability built on OpenTelemetry, proving performance parity and reducing cost.

Skills

Observability

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Telemetry

Cost optimization

Job description

• Current estate spans multiple commercial vendors, self-managed Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Vector, and ELK at tens of millions of active series.
• Log and trace data is sampled or dropped for cost, ownership tagging is sparse, and self-managed components create heavy operational load.

The Mission:

• Lead the observability maturity assessment and validate telemetry volumes, retention, sampling, and cardinality.
• Design and execute the migration to AWS-native observability built on OpenTelemetry, proving performance parity and reducing cost.
• 100% remote workplace with unlimited paid time off and equity ownership.
• 401K with company contribution, sponsored healthcare, and professional growth opportunities.

EverOps

EverOps is the premier Embedded Service Provider, partnering directly with customer engineering teams to assess and address mission-critical infrastructure, cloud, and delivery challenges. We've been remote since day one, and our culture centers on ownership, technical leadership, and continuous professional growth.