Senior Staff Observability Engineer — Scale & Reliability Platform

Coupang; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

401K Plan with Company Match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in Seattle to build and maintain observability solutions. This role involves designing monitoring and alerting systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other engineers. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of experience in observability solutions within large-scale environments and is proficient in relevant technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes. A Bachelor's degree in a technical field is required, along with a passion for enhancing service health and reliability.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in implementing observability solutions.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure like AWS or Azure.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Ruby.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain observability solutions across platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define observability requirements.
• Mentor engineers on observability principles and practices.

Skills

Monitoring solutions

Alerting systems

Logging systems

Distributed tracing

Cloud infrastructure

Python

DevOps practices

Collaboration skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic Stack

Datadog

New Relic

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

A leading technology company is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in Seattle to build and maintain observability solutions. This role involves designing monitoring and alerting systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other engineers. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of experience in observability solutions within large-scale environments and is proficient in relevant technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes. A Bachelor's degree in a technical field is required, along with a passion for enhancing service health and reliability.