Observability Platform Engineer — OpenTelemetry & Automation

Truist; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401k plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Truist is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer focused on observability to design, develop, and enable enterprise telemetry capabilities. You will work with OpenTelemetry, APIs, and automation to improve visibility and resilience across platforms.

The role requires hands-on development with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and integration with monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerting pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field with 5+ years of infra engineering experience.
• Experience implementing observability across cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.
• Proficiency with OpenTelemetry, monitoring pipelines, and telemetry data management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain observability solutions using modern programming languages and automation frameworks.
• Design and implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collectors, and telemetry pipelines.
• Build APIs, integrations, and self-service capabilities that simplify monitoring adoption.
• Create automation to manage monitoring configurations, maintenance windows, alerting, and platform onboarding.
• Partner with application teams to embed observability into the software development lifecycle.
• Develop dashboards, analytics, and monitoring-as-code solutions that improve operational visibility.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives focused on reliability and scalability.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Metrics collection

Python/Java/Go

Kubernetes

APIs & CI/CD

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Truist is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer focused on observability to design, develop, and enable enterprise telemetry capabilities. You will work with OpenTelemetry, APIs, and automation to improve visibility and resilience across platforms.

The role requires hands-on development with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and integration with monitoring tools, dashboards, and alerting pipelines.