Senior Observability & Infrastructure Engineer

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to own and evolve a scalable observability platform spanning metrics, logs, traces, and events. You will drive the productization for internal teams and external customers while designing multi-tenant systems with scoped access.

The role emphasizes building telemetry pipelines, integrating data from GPUs, CPUs, networks, containers, and APIs; creating dashboards for InfraOps, Engineering, and Customer Success; and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, SRE, or observability-focused roles.
• Strong experience with monitoring systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or VictoriaMetrics.
• Experience building and operating observability platforms at scale.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or bash for automation and data integration.
• Familiarity with containerized environments and Kubernetes observability.
• Experience with streaming telemetry pipelines (Kafka, OTEL, Promtail, or equivalent).
• Experience with multi-tenant monitoring architectures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve a scalable observability platform spanning metrics, logs, traces, and events
• Drive the productization of observability capabilities for both internal teams and external customers
• Design multi-tenant observability systems with scoped access, RBAC, and customer-facing visibility
• Continuously improve observability systems to keep pace with rapid infrastructure buildouts
• Design and operate telemetry pipelines ingesting data from GPUs, CPUs, networking, containers, APIs, and BMC/Redfish
• Build systems to correlate signals across infrastructure layers to enable faster debugging and root cause analysis
• Implement streaming and real-time data pipelines using tools such as Kafka, OTEL, Promtail
• Design and implement noise-resistant alerting systems to improve signal quality and reduce operational load
• Create dashboards and alerting for InfraOps, Engineering, and Customer Success teams
• Build automated insights and enable proactive detection, forecasting, and system health visibility at scale
• Contribute to broader infrastructure engineering projects beyond observability
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to embed observability into core systems and workflows
• Support large-scale, distributed systems across compute, networking, and storage environments
• Work closely with customer-facing teams to deliver external observability experiences
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and support teams to improve system transparency and reliability
• Help define best practices for observability across the organization

Skills

Observability platform design

SRE / infrastructure engineering

Python/Go/bash scripting

Kubernetes observability

Streaming telemetry pipelines

Multi-tenant monitoring architectures

Strong communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

VictoriaMetrics

Kafka

OTEL

Promtail

Python

Go

Bash

Kubernetes

Job description

Jobtailor in the United States seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to own and evolve a scalable observability platform spanning metrics, logs, traces, and events. You will drive the productization for internal teams and external customers while designing multi-tenant systems with scoped access.

The role emphasizes building telemetry pipelines, integrating data from GPUs, CPUs, networks, containers, and APIs; creating dashboards for InfraOps, Engineering, and Customer Success; and