Senior Backend Engineer: Observability & SLO Telemetry

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking an observability-focused engineer to join a healthcare data platform team building SLO monitoring and alerting across 110-140 services. You will instrument applications with OpenTelemetry in Go and Node.js/TypeScript, develop custom metrics, and help ensure telemetry quality across distributed systems.

You will collaborate with platform and observability teams, support Kubernetes and Helm deployments, work with GraphQL services, and leverage AI-assisted development tools to

Qualifications

• Hands-on OpenTelemetry instrumentation across Go and Node.js/TypeScript.
• Experience implementing custom metrics and application telemetry.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple codebases and drive cross-team PRs.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and distributed systems.
• Kubernetes and Helm deployment experience.
• GraphQL experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot).
• Strong analytical mindset and telemetry data quality validation.
• Healthcare or regulated environment experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Instrument applications using OpenTelemetry SDKs in Go and Node.js/TypeScript.
• Implement and maintain custom metrics and telemetry.
• Contribute instrumentation changes across repositories owned by multiple teams.
• Support Kubernetes and Helm-based deployments.
• Work with GraphQL services and APIs.
• Validate telemetry signals against independent data sources before they are used for alerting.
• Collaborate with platform and observability teams to improve monitoring coverage and reliability.

Skills

OpenTelemetry instrumentation

Node.js/TypeScript

custom metrics & telemetry

observability & distributed systems

Kubernetes & Helm

GraphQL

cross-team PRs

AI-assisted development tools

telemetry data quality validation

Tools

Go

Grafana

Job description

Luxoft is seeking an observability-focused engineer to join a healthcare data platform team building SLO monitoring and alerting across 110-140 services. You will instrument applications with OpenTelemetry in Go and Node.js/TypeScript, develop custom metrics, and help ensure telemetry quality across distributed systems.

You will collaborate with platform and observability teams, support Kubernetes and Helm deployments, work with GraphQL services, and leverage AI-assisted development tools to