Senior Observability Engineer: Exec Dashboards & SLOs

Verisign Inc.; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Discretionary bonus

Stock awards

Job summary

Verisign Inc. seeks a Senior Observability Engineer to design and advance observability capabilities that transform operational data into actionable insight. You will establish SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, and models linking performance to business outcomes.

The role requires deep expertise, leadership across the stack, and the ability to communicate concisely to executives and engineering teams. Hybrid work from Reston, VA and strong collaboration with AIS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain unified observability dashboards across architectures.
• Develop executive-level views of service health, availability, performance, customer impact, operational risk, and capacity trends.
• Translate complex technical data into clear insights that support prioritization, risk management, and operational decisions.
• Define dashboard standards that provide consistent terminology, visualizations, service hierarchies, and health indicators.
• Partner with application owners, product teams, and business stakeholders to define meaningful SLIs and SLOs.
• Automate the collection, calculation, visualization, and reporting of SLO performance.
• Lead technical evaluations and make recommendations regarding observability platforms and capabilities.
• Coach engineering teams on instrumentation, dashboard design, SLO development, and data-driven problem-solving.
• Analyze observability data to identify performance degradation, reliability risks, and capacity constraints.

Skills

Observability engineering

SRE

Dashboard design

Data analysis

Communication

Executive storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Nagios

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Verisign Inc. seeks a Senior Observability Engineer to design and advance observability capabilities that transform operational data into actionable insight. You will establish SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, and models linking performance to business outcomes.

The role requires deep expertise, leadership across the stack, and the ability to communicate concisely to executives and engineering teams. Hybrid work from Reston, VA and strong collaboration with AIS.