Senior Observability & Infra Engineering Manager

Cssmerge; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life & disability insurance

Voluntary insurance: accident, illness

Supplemental life insurance

Pet insurance

401(k)

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Discretionary vacation days

8 paid holidays per year

Paid sick time

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress. You will lead a team of engineers responsible for end-to-end observability across our infrastructure, owning logs, metrics, traces, and event-based monitoring.

You’ll drive the roadmap for observability and cost initiatives with direct collaboration across engineering managers. Based in Mountain View, this role combines hands-on work with strategic ownership as we extend monitoring into new physical domains, including autonomous

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally within observability, platform, or infrastructure functions.
• Strong foundation in engineering architecture and design fundamentals, to evaluate decisions and push back constructively.
• Comfort operating without a PM or TPM, independently scoping roadmaps and driving execution with ownership.
• Experience with, or ability to ramp on, our stack: Go, Azure/Azure Kubernetes, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry. Prior Go experience not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 engineers for end-to-end observability of infrastructure (logs, metrics, traces, events).
• Own the roadmap for our observability and cost initiative independently, collaborating with engineering managers to identify pain points and design solutions.
• Drive down time to detect and mitigate for production incidents across a 60+ service system.
• Extend observability into new physical domains as the company expands, including autonomous mining transport.
• Maintain a cost-efficient observability stack with favorable total cost versus third-party tooling.
• Represent the technical state of your domain in real time, speaking to feasibility, scope, and timelines.
• Stay hands-on roughly a third of your time to unblock the team and surface insights with AI tools.
• Grow the careers of engineers on your team while maintaining strong technical ownership.

Skills

Team leadership

Observability

System design

Go

Azure Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

ClickHouse

Tools

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

Azure Kubernetes

Job description

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress. You will lead a team of engineers responsible for end-to-end observability across our infrastructure, owning logs, metrics, traces, and event-based monitoring.

You’ll drive the roadmap for observability and cost initiatives with direct collaboration across engineering managers. Based in Mountain View, this role combines hands-on work with strategic ownership as we extend monitoring into new physical domains, including autonomous