Senior Observability Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Piscataway Township (NJ); 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 that give engineering teams confidence in the systems they run. The role spans the full observability stack—from collection agents and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows—with emphasis on usability, signal quality, and ROI.

The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands open-source vs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Ten or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience operating high-cardinality, high-throughput metrics and log pipelines.
• Strong understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and SRE principles.
• Experience integrating observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling.
• Solid grasp of Linux internals, networking, and container platforms.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate enterprise-grade observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, events, and synthetic monitoring.
• Architect Prometheus / Thanos / Mimir, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog deployments for high availability and scale.
• Develop standards for service instrumentation and OpenTelemetry adoption.
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets and build dashboards and alerts.
• Build alerting strategies that minimize noise and integrate with on-call workflows.
• Operate large-scale time-series and log storage platforms balancing retention and cost.
• Design distributed tracing pipelines to diagnose latency and reliability issues.
• Develop self-service tooling and templates for easy adoption of observability standards.
• Drive cost management and label-cardinality discipline across the observability estate.
• Lead incident response readiness improvements through dashboards, alerting hygiene, and tooling.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to integrate observability into pipelines and canary analyses.
• Evaluate observability vendors and open-source tools based on cost and maturity.
• Mentor teams on observability fundamentals and post-incident analysis.

Skills

SRE principles

Communication

CI/CD integration

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Observability Engineer to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that give engineering teams confidence in the systems they run. The role spans the full observability stack—from collection agents and pipelines to long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows—with emphasis on usability, signal quality, and ROI.

The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands open-source vs