Observability Engineer

Sepal; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A tech company specializing in AI is looking for an Observability Engineer to enhance their AI systems. Candidates should have over 3 years of experience in roles such as production or platform engineering and a strong grasp of Clickhouse and Grafana, particularly in large-scale query optimization. This position involves designing complex queries, challenging AI's reasoning skills, and managing synthetic datasets. Flexible working hours are offered, along with competitive pay between $50 and $85 per hour based on experience.

Benefits

Remote work

Flexible hours

Competitive pay

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in observability engineer, production engineer, or platform engineer roles.
• Deep expertise in Clickhouse and Grafana, focusing on large-scale query optimization.
• Strong SQL skills for performance problem-solving and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design complex, distributed queries over massive log and telemetry datasets.
• Explore creative ways to challenge AI's reasoning ability and log analysis skills.
• Create and manage synthetic datasets simulating real-world logs.

Skills

Clickhouse

Grafana

SQL

Job description

Sepal AI builds the world’s hardest tests for AI grounded in real-world software systems. We are looking for an Observability Engineer with 3+ years of experience to help us understand, debug, and operate complex production systems at scale. You will work deeply with production logs, metrics, and traces, building tasks and datasets that can teach AI to investigate incidents, analyze performance, and improve system reliability.

🧠 What You’ll Do

• Design complex, distributed queries over massive log and telemetry datasets.
• Explore creative ways to challenge AI's reasoning ability and log analysis skills.
• Create and manage synthetic datasets that simulate real-world DevOps, observability, or cloud infrastructure logs.

✅ Who You Are

• 3+ years of experience in observability engineer, production engineer, or platform engineer roles.
• Deep expertise in Clickhouse and Grafana, with a focus on large-scale query optimization, schema design, and performance tuning,
• Strong SQL skills: you know how to reason through performance problems and spot inefficient query patterns.

💸 Pay

$50 - 85/hr depending on experience
Remote, flexible hours
Project timeline: 5-6 weeks