Senior Observability Engineer: OpenTelemetry at Scale

AppGate Cybersecurity, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AppGate Cybersecurity, Inc. is seeking an Observability Engineer to lead the design and implementation of high-performance observability solutions. Ideal candidates will have 8+ years of engineering experience, including expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and high-throughput data pipelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance observability across the AppGate platform. This role offers an impactful opportunity to influence systems that secure national security and business continuity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with 4+ years in observability or telemetry.
• Experience designing or contributing to a production tracing system.
• Proficient in handling high-throughput data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end observability fabric with OpenTelemetry.
• Build telemetry SDKs and ensure high-cardinality data pipeline.
• Drive integration standards for tools like Datadog and Splunk.

Skills

OpenTelemetry expertise

High-throughput pipeline experience

Systems programming in Go or Rust

Networking and security fluency

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Elastic

New Relic

Grafana Labs

Job description

AppGate Cybersecurity, Inc. is seeking an Observability Engineer to lead the design and implementation of high-performance observability solutions. Ideal candidates will have 8+ years of engineering experience, including expertise in OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and high-throughput data pipelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance observability across the AppGate platform. This role offers an impactful opportunity to influence systems that secure national security and business continuity.