Senior Observability Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Monroeville (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Observability Engineer to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms powering engineering teams across the organization.

The role covers the full observability stack—from data collection to dashboards and alerting workflows—with emphasis on usability, signal quality, and ROI. Requires 12+ years in SRE/observability and strong OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and cloud-native skills.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
• Hands-on with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one commercial observability platform.
• Proficient in Go, Python, or Java and Linux basics.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms.
• Architect Prometheus / Thanos / Mimir, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog deployments.
• Develop standards for service instrumentation, including OpenTelemetry adoption, metric naming, label cardinality, and structured logging conventions.
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, and build dashboards and alerts to operationalize them.
• Build alerting strategies that minimize noise and integrate with on-call tools like PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Operate large-scale time-series and log storage platforms balancing retention, query performance, and cost.
• Design distributed tracing pipelines and help teams diagnose latency and reliability issues.
• Develop self-service tooling and templates to simplify observability adoption for product teams.
• Drive cost management and label-cardinality discipline across the observability estate.
• Lead incident response readiness improvements through dashboards, alert hygiene, and post-incident analyses.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to integrate observability into deployment pipelines and progressive delivery workflows.
• Mentor engineering teams on observability fundamentals and runbooks.
• Maintain documentation and onboarding guides for the observability platform.

Skills

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Structured logging

Go

Python

Java

CI/CD

SRE principles

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

Thanos

Mimir

Loki

Tempo

PagerDuty

Opsgenie

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Observability Engineer to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms powering engineering teams across the organization.

The role covers the full observability stack—from data collection to dashboards and alerting workflows—with emphasis on usability, signal quality, and ROI. Requires 12+ years in SRE/observability and strong OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and cloud-native skills.