Monitoring Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Hillsboro (OR); Remote; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Monitoring Engineer to design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that give engineering teams confidence in the systems they run. The role spans the full observability stack—from collection agents and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows—with a focus on usability and ROI.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one commercial observability platform,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog/New Relic/Splunk.
• OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Go/Python/Java programming.
• High-cardinality metrics and log pipelines.
• SLOs and error budgets basics.
• CI/CD and incident management tooling.
• Linux, networking, and container platforms.
• Excellent communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate observability platforms at scale.
• Translate telemetry into actionable insight for engineers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across teams to improve monitoring and incident response.
• Optimize observability costs and tool choices.

Skills

5+ yrs SRE/observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Structured logging

Go

Python

Java

Metrics pipelines

Log pipelines

SLOs

Error budgets

SRE principles

CI/CD

Incident management

Linux

Networking

Container platforms

Communication

Collaboration

Thanos/Mimir/Cortex/Loki/Tempo

OpenTelemetry contributions

eBPF observability

Observability cost optimization

Regulated environments awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Monitoring Engineer – Remote

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title: Monitoring Engineer

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)

Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2

Salary Range: $75,000–$85,000 Annually

Experience Required:6+ years

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary

We are looking for an Monitoring Engineer to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that give engineering teams confidence in the systems they run. The role spans the full observability stack — from collection agents and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows — with a strong focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI. The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands the trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and can translate noisy telemetry into actionable insight for both engineers and business stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience operating high-cardinality, high-throughput metrics and log pipelines.
• Strong understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and SRE principles.
• Experience integrating observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling.
• Solid grasp of Linux internals, networking, and container platforms.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Loki, or Tempo at scale.
• Contributions to OpenTelemetry or observability open-source projects.
• Familiarity with eBPF-based observability tooling.
• Experience driving observability cost optimization initiatives.
• Exposure to regulated environments with audit-grade logging requirements.

Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.

BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.