Remote Senior Observability Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; 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 and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows — with a strong focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.
• Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as 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 metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms for engineering teams.
• Span the full observability stack from collection to dashboards and alerting workflows.
• Translate telemetry into actionable insights for engineers and business stakeholders.

Skills

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Go

Python

Java

CI/CD

Linux

Distributed tracing

Logging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

Prometheus ecosystem

OpenTelemetry

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 and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows — with a strong focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI.