Senior Elixir & Observability Engineer — Remote Impact

BairesDev; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive USD salary

Home office setup

Flexible hours

Paid parental leave

Diversity & mentorship

Job summary

At BairesDev, a global technology services company, we are seeking a Senior Elixir & Observability Engineer to design, build, and optimize highly concurrent backend systems with clear telemetry standards.

You will enable monitoring, tracing, and performance improvements across the stack, collaborating with Infra and SRE teams while elevating reliability and production health reporting for complex distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Elixir Development, or a related field.
• Proven expertise with Elixir and Rust programming languages.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing.
• Proficiency with observability platforms such as Datadog or New Relic.
• Advanced proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, fault-tolerant backend services and systems.
• Integrate advanced observability and distributed tracing frameworks across the entire technology stack.
• Instrument applications to capture critical metrics, logs and traces for real-time monitoring.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to identify system bottlenecks and optimize performance.
• Establish best practices for application reliability, debugging, and production-level system health reporting.

Skills

Elixir

Rust

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

English

Tools

Datadog

New Relic

Job description

At BairesDev, a global technology services company, we are seeking a Senior Elixir & Observability Engineer to design, build, and optimize highly concurrent backend systems with clear telemetry standards.

You will enable monitoring, tracing, and performance improvements across the stack, collaborating with Infra and SRE teams while elevating reliability and production health reporting for complex distributed systems.