Observability & Infra Engineering Lead

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

HSA

Life and disability insurance

Paid time off

Equity awards

Bonus potential

Job summary

Atoms in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a senior observability engineering leader to guide a six‑person team responsible for end‑to‑end observability across our infrastructure, including logs, metrics, traces, and event‑based monitoring.

You will own the roadmap for our observability and cost initiative, collaborating directly with engineering managers to identify pain points and design scalable solutions. The role blends architectural oversight with hands‑on problem solving.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally within observability, platform, or infrastructure functions.
• Strong foundation in engineering architecture and design fundamentals, enough to evaluate your team's technical decisions and push back constructively, even if you're not the one architecting solutions day to day
• Comfort operating without a PM or TPM, someone who can independently scope a roadmap, prioritize competing asks, and drive execution with high ownership
• Experience with, or ability to quickly ramp on, our stack: Go, Azure/Azure Kubernetes, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry. Prior Go experience is not required

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 engineers owning end-to-end observability across the company's infrastructure, including logs, metrics, traces, and event-based monitoring
• Own the roadmap for our observability and cost initiative independently, no PM or TPM support, meeting directly with engineering managers across the company to identify pain points and design end-to-end solutions
• Drive down time to detect and time to mitigate for production incidents across a system where a single request can traverse 60+ services
• Extend observability coverage beyond our original food delivery systems into new physical domains, including autonomous mining transport, as the company's mission expands
• Maintain and grow a highly cost-efficient observability stack (currently running at a fraction of comparable third-party tooling costs)
• Represent the technical state of your domain in real time, speaking confidently to feasibility, scope, and timelines for any ask without needing to defer to others
• Stay hands‑on (roughly a third of your time), jumping in to unblock the team when needed, using AI tools to analyze issues and surface insights, without sitting on the critical path for delivery
• Grow the careers of the engineers on your team while maintaining strong technical ownership of your domain

Skills

Team management

Engineering leadership

Observability

Go

Azure/Kubernetes

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

Architectural design

Tools

Go

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Atoms in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a senior observability engineering leader to guide a six‑person team responsible for end‑to‑end observability across our infrastructure, including logs, metrics, traces, and event‑based monitoring.

You will own the roadmap for our observability and cost initiative, collaborating directly with engineering managers to identify pain points and design scalable solutions. The role blends architectural oversight with hands‑on problem solving.