Senior Observability Platform Engineer, GPU AI Cloud

nscaleoperationsukltd; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan participation

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale our observability platform for GPU-driven AI workloads. You will deliver reliable visibility into GPU clusters and AI infrastructure, balancing usability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

As an hands-on engineer, you will influence platform direction, implement critical systems, and collaborate closely with SRE, infra, and AI/ML teams to ensure observability is embedded in services we run.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, infrastructure, platform engineering, or observability roles.
• Experience operating and scaling observability systems in production.
• Strong monitoring concepts: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and SLOs.
• Hands-on with Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Elastic.
• Solid Python/Go programming skills for production systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, or similar IaC tools.
• Pragmatic mindset focused on simplicity, reliability, and maintainability.
• Strong collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Contribute to tooling and data pipelines, storage, and retention decisions.
• Improve signal quality by reducing noise and refining alerting practices.
• Identify observability gaps and drive reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with SRE, infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to embed observability.
• Develop reusable patterns and best practices for consistency across teams.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems with actionable follow-ups.
• Evaluate tools that improve developer experience and scalability.
• Mentor engineers via code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

SRE expertise

Production observability

Python/Go programming

Tools

Prometheus

Thanos

VictoriaMetrics

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

ClickHouse

Elastic

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale our observability platform for GPU-driven AI workloads. You will deliver reliable visibility into GPU clusters and AI infrastructure, balancing usability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

As an hands-on engineer, you will influence platform direction, implement critical systems, and collaborate closely with SRE, infra, and AI/ML teams to ensure observability is embedded in services we run.