Remote Observability Engineer: Scale, Metrics & Tracing

Bright Vision Technologies; Farmington Hills (MI); On-site; USD 89,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Observability 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 to storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows—with a focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI.

The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands open-source vs SaaS

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability.
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform (Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk).
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (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.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms for observability.
• Ensure usability, signal quality, and operational ROI across the stack.
• Translate telemetry into actionable insight for engineers and business stakeholders.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

SRE principles

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD tooling

Linux

Kubernetes

eBPF

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Observability 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 to storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows—with a focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI.

The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands open-source vs SaaS