Senior Platform Observability Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 139,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

The company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the observability of its global platform, building and maintaining telemetry data tooling, logs, metrics and traces at scale. You will shape how teams collect, analyze and act on observations, guiding best practices, architecture, and reliability across services.

Based in Amsterdam, this office-first role requires collaboration with cross-functional partners, mentoring engineers and SREs, and delivering scalable observability solutions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with highly distributed systems.
• Experience designing APIs and data pipelines for high-throughput real-time data ingestion.
• Proficiency with Go and/or Java.
• Strong knowledge of observability tooling and data stores at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Logging, Metrics, Tracing & Alerting strategies.
• Solve scaling bottlenecks in telemetry data pipelines.
• Create tooling to accelerate root-cause analysis and reduce MTTR.
• Mentor software engineers and SRE teams on monitoring best practices.
• Improve reliability of the observability platform and user experience.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs & data pipelines

Go/Java

Observability tools

Containerization

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

The company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the observability of its global platform, building and maintaining telemetry data tooling, logs, metrics and traces at scale. You will shape how teams collect, analyze and act on observations, guiding best practices, architecture, and reliability across services.

Based in Amsterdam, this office-first role requires collaboration with cross-functional partners, mentoring engineers and SREs, and delivering scalable observability solutions