Senior Observability Platform Engineer – GPU AI Infra

Nscale; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

Nscale is hiring a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale our observability platform for GPU clusters and AI workloads. You’ll treat observability as a product, balancing usability, scalability, and operational efficiency to reduce cognitive load for engineers.

You will partner with SRE, infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to embed observability into services, mentor peers, and help drive platform direction and patterns.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or observability-focused roles.
• Experience operating and scaling observability systems in production environments.
• Strong understanding of monitoring concepts: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Contribute to architectural decisions around tooling, data pipelines, storage, and retention strategies.
• Improve signal quality by reducing noise, managing cardinality, and refining alerting practices.
• Help identify and address observability gaps before they impact reliability.
• Partner with SRE, infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to integrate observability into services and platforms.
• Develop reusable patterns, libraries, and best practices that improve consistency across teams.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems, driving actionable improvements.
• Evaluate and adopt tools that improve developer experience, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Support and mentor engineers within the team through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

SRE/Platform engineering

Observability

Collaboration

Tools

Prometheus

Thanos

VictoriaMetrics

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

OpenTelemetry

ClickHouse

Elastic

Job description

Nscale is hiring a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale our observability platform for GPU clusters and AI workloads. You’ll treat observability as a product, balancing usability, scalability, and operational efficiency to reduce cognitive load for engineers.

You will partner with SRE, infrastructure, and AI/ML teams to embed observability into services, mentor peers, and help drive platform direction and patterns.