Senior Observability Engineer - Remote: Architect Telemetry

KellyMitchell; Issaquah (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)

401K offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to join our team in a remote capacity. You will design and implement foundational patterns for user-journey observability and instrumentation across GCP microservices, ensuring data flows effectively into BigQuery for analytics.

The role emphasizes influencing architectural directions, collaborating in greenfield environments, and building tooling to improve reliability across 120+ applications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-stack or platform engineering experience.
• Strong experience with distributed systems or microservices.
• Hands-on cloud experience, Google Cloud preferred.
• Experience implementing observability: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs/SLIs.
• Experience moving data into analytical stores such as BigQuery, data lakes, or log pipelines.
• Ability to influence technical direction and guide architectural patterns.
• Comfort working in collaborative teams and ambiguous, greenfield environments.
• Experience building tooling, services, or frameworks that support reliability or operational insights.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the foundational technical patterns for user-journey observability.
• Design and implement how services across GCP microservices are instrumented and monitored.
• Design and implement how operational data flows into tools like BigQuery.
• Design reusable engineering standards that teams will adopt as they modernize 120+ additional applications.

Skills

Distributed systems / microservices

Cloud experience (GCP)

Observability (metrics, logs, tracing,

Tools

BigQuery

Job description

KellyMitchell is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to join our team in a remote capacity. You will design and implement foundational patterns for user-journey observability and instrumentation across GCP microservices, ensuring data flows effectively into BigQuery for analytics.

The role emphasizes influencing architectural directions, collaborating in greenfield environments, and building tooling to improve reliability across 120+ applications.