Senior Platform Engineer — Observability & Cloud Infra

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and build a scalable observability platform. You’ll own telemetry ingestion, real-time dashboards, and alerting across enterprise-scale deployments, collaborating with SRE/DevOps and SAP integration teams.

The role emphasizes IaC, Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenTelemetry with a strong focus on reliability and performance in a distributed cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years experience using Java.
• 2+ years hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Helm, Terraform, or equivalent).
• Deep experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry or comparable observability platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP).
• Desire to learn new technologies and proven problem solver.

Responsibilities

• Build and own an observability platform that ingests customer telemetry — events, logs, and traces — using OpenTelemetry and industry best practices
• Deliver dashboarding and visualization capabilities that give Support and Field teams real-time visibility into system health, emerging issues, and trends — and help customers stay resilient at scale
• Design and implement a notification and alerting system driven by telemetry data and heuristics with AI agents and lakehouse intelligence
• Write infrastructure-as-code with Helm and Terraform to simplify deployment and operations within the company
• Build and maintain application frameworks that standardize development across teams — tackling cross-cutting challenges like dependency injection and role-based access control at scale
• Partner with our SRE and DevOps teams to define best practices and deliver standardized solutions for common engineering workflows
• Engage directly with the developer community to understand their pain points and turn those insights into platform improvements
• Help define and deliver roadmap and integration milestones with SAP HANA/BDC platform to deliver a cohesive experience

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and build a scalable observability platform. You’ll own telemetry ingestion, real-time dashboards, and alerting across enterprise-scale deployments, collaborating with SRE/DevOps and SAP integration teams.

The role emphasizes IaC, Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenTelemetry with a strong focus on reliability and performance in a distributed cloud environment.