Remote Observability Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Site Observability Engineer to design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms across the observability stack for scalable cloud-based systems. This role emphasizes usability, signal quality, and ROI, collaborating with SRE and platform teams.

You will implement standards, define SLOs/SLIs, and lead incident response improvements while mentoring engineers on observability fundamentals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field.
• 6+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or observability.
• Hands-on with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major observability platform (Datadog/New Relic/Splunk).
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience operating high-cardinality, high-throughput metrics and log pipelines.
• Understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and CI/CD integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms across metrics, logs, traces, events, and synthetic monitoring.
• Architect Prometheus/Thanos/Mimir, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog deployments for scale.
• Define standards for instrumentation, including OpenTelemetry adoption and structured logging conventions.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs and build dashboards and alerts.
• Develop alerting strategies to minimize noise and integrate with on-call workflows.
• Operate large-scale time-series/log storage with retention, performance, and cost considerations.
• Lead incident response improvements via dashboards, alerting hygiene, and tooling.
• Mentor teams on observability fundamentals and SLO-driven operations.

Skills

SRE

Platform engineering

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Go / Python / Java

Linux / containers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

Thanos

Mimir

Cortex

Loki

Tempo

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Site Observability Engineer to design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms across the observability stack for scalable cloud-based systems. This role emphasizes usability, signal quality, and ROI, collaborating with SRE and platform teams.

You will implement standards, define SLOs/SLIs, and lead incident response improvements while mentoring engineers on observability fundamentals.