Platform Reliability Engineer: Observability & FinOps

Appnovation

Austin (CO)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Appnovation, a AI product company, is seeking an experienced SRE/observability engineer to build and run an internal agent platform on AWS Bedrock. You will implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation, integrate with CloudWatch and Datadog, and define SLOs with actionable alerts. Strong FinOps and scripting skills are essential.

You will collaborate with client teams and deliver observable, cost-aware, reliable services across multi-agent workflows.

Qualifications

6+ years in SRE, platform reliability or observability engineering.
Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.
Experience with CloudWatch and at least one enterprise observability platform.
Experience defining and running SLOs, error budgets and alerting strategies.
Experience building cost visibility and FinOps reporting on AWS.
Scripting in Python, Go or TypeScript and ability to turn data into decisions.

Responsibilities

Instrumentation: Build OpenTelemetry instrumentation standards for agents, tools and platform services.
Observability integration: Connect AgentCore with CloudWatch and other tools like Datadog, Grafana.
Tracing: Set up end-to-end tracing across agent steps and multi-agent handoffs.
SLOs and alerting: Define SLOs and build useful, non-noisy alerts.
Cost monitoring: Track token usage and compute spend with dashboards and budgets.
Incident readiness: Write runbooks and support post-incident reviews.