Site Reliability Engineer (OpenTelemetry)

Optomi; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to join a performance-focused SRE team. This fully remote role involves enhancing system reliability through automation and telemetry, requiring strong expertise in observability tools and coding.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant IT experience focused on observability.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry.
• Demonstrated coding ability in languages like Java, C/C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead monitoring improvements and implement OpenTelemetry.
• Ensure observability tooling functionality before product launches.
• Collaborate to optimize system-level visibility.

Skills

Observability

Performance Engineering

OpenTelemetry

Communication

Tools

Elastic Stack

Grafana

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer (OpenTelemetry)

Site Reliability Engineer (OpenTelemetry)

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Senior Observability Engineer

*12-month contract-to-hire or long-term contract*

Fully Remote

Optomi, in partnership with our premier client in the financial services industry is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer with deep technical expertise to join a performance-focused SRE team. This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, product development, and infrastructure—leveraging automation, telemetry, and hands-on coding to enhance system visibility and reliability.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead efforts to improve monitoring posture across new and existing services.
• Drive adoption and implementation of OpenTelemetry across product teams.
• Support product launch readiness by ensuring observability tooling is fully deployed and functional.
• Help teams troubleshoot logging issues and establish reliable log flows.
• Work closely with performance engineers and platform teams to optimize system-level visibility.
• Contribute code and automation to reduce toil and support scalable observability.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure compliance and consistency in observability practices.

Key Skills & Experience:

• 6+ years of relevant IT experience, with recent focus in observability or performance engineering.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry and observability tooling.
• Demonstrated coding ability (language-agnostic; Java, C/C++, Python, etc. all welcome).
• Experience with cloud environments (cloud-agnostic preferred).
• Experience with Elastic Stack and Grafana.
• Hands-on experience deploying tooling and debugging telemetry/logging pipelines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

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