Senior Cloud Observability Engineer

Momento USA LLC; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Momento USA LLC is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer in the McLean, VA area to design, implement, and optimize enterprise observability solutions. You will drive improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience through OpenTelemetry, Elastic Cloud, and cloud-native monitoring.

The role involves migrating from legacy systems to modern platforms, building end-to-end monitoring for distributed apps, and integrating dashboards, data pipelines, and AI-driven analytics.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in Application Performance Monitoring and Observability.
• Experience with Open Telemetry and Elastic Stack deployment.
• Onboarding applications into Elastic Search and cloud-native monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing observability solutions and identify gaps.
• Document ideal vs. current deployment and propose improvements.
• Implement end-to-end observability for cloud-native apps with Elastic Cloud.
• Develop monitoring strategies for infra, apps, logs, traces, metrics, and UX.
• Migrate monitoring from legacy tools to Dynatrace and Elastic.
• Design Elastic-based architectures: data pipelines, storage, dashboards, analytics.
• Build extensions, automations, and synthetic monitoring using Python/JS.
• Integrate monitoring with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins and related tools).
• Configure OpenPipeline, Business Events, anomaly detection, and AI analytics.
• Optimize licensing, ingestion, and storage costs; maintain effectiveness.
• Collaborate across teams to improve reliability and performance.
• Conduct dashboards reviews and observability maturity improvements.
• Support proactive monitoring, RCAs, incidents, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Observability engineering

APM

OpenTelemetry

Python

JavaScript

AWS

CI/CD

Elastic Stack

Distributed tracing

Root cause analysis

Tools

Elastic Cloud

Dynatrace

Jenkins

Job description

Momento USA LLC is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer in the McLean, VA area to design, implement, and optimize enterprise observability solutions. You will drive improvements in reliability, performance, and user experience through OpenTelemetry, Elastic Cloud, and cloud-native monitoring.

The role involves migrating from legacy systems to modern platforms, building end-to-end monitoring for distributed apps, and integrating dashboards, data pipelines, and AI-driven analytics.