Senior Cloud Engineer, Observability

Scorpion Therapeutics; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayer Crop Science is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer specialized in Observability to enhance platform reliability through telemetry and monitoring. You will manage toolchains like Datadog and CloudWatch, set standards for logs, metrics and traces, and deploy golden paths for instrumentation.

You will collaborate with Delivery, Security and Data teams, mentor others, and measure observability KPIs while working with a flexible location model across the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years AWS experience in production environments.
• Deep expertise with Datadog/CloudWatch.
• Designing actionable alerts.
• Proficiency with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Programming skills in Python/Go.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Triaging platform requests and incidents.
• Defining SLIs/SLOs for observability.
• Reducing MTTR and improving platform reliability.
• Integrating observability into CI/CD workflows.
• Optimizing telemetry costs and resource usage.
• Collaborating with delivery, Security and Data units.
• Mentoring junior engineers and peers.
• Measuring observability KPIs to drive improvements.

Skills

AWS expertise

Telemetry design

CI/CD integration

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/engineering or equivalent

Tools

Datadog

CloudWatch

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Senior Cloud Engineer, Observability

within Bayer Crop Science, focusing on enhancing platform reliability through telemetry and monitoring. Responsibilities include managing observability toolchains (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch), establishing standards for logs, metrics, and traces, and deploying 'golden paths' for consistent instrumentation.

Key duties

• triaging platform requests
• defining SLIs/SLOs
• reducing MTTR
• integrating observability into CI/CD workflows
• optimizing telemetry costs
• collaboration with delivery teams, Security and Data units
• mentorship
• measurement of observability KPIs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in CS/engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years AWS experience in production environments
• deep expertise with Datadog/CloudWatch
• designing actionable alerts
• proficiency with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• programming skills (Python/Go)
• a solid understanding of cloud architecture

Preferred skills

• productizing observability standards
• managing scale with platforms like ELK/OpenSearch
• containerization (ECS/EKS)
• AWS data services
• FinOps related to telemetry costs
• relevant AWS certifications
• strong communication

Work setup

location-flexible across the U.S., with a salary range of approximately $130k-$180k plus benefits.