Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (OpenTelemetry)

Optomi; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm seeks a Senior Observability Engineer to enhance system visibility and reliability within a performance-focused SRE team. This fully remote role requires deep technical expertise in automation, telemetry, and coding. You will lead monitoring improvements, implement OpenTelemetry, and collaborate with teams to optimize observability practices. With a focus on cloud environments and performance engineering, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in the financial services sector. If you are passionate about observability and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT experience with a focus on observability or performance engineering.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to improve monitoring across new and existing services.
• Drive adoption and implementation of OpenTelemetry across product teams.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Java

C/C++

Python

Elastic Stack

Grafana

Cloud Environments

Communication Skills

Job description

Senior Cloud and Infrastructure Recruiter at Optomi

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 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.
• Assist teams in troubleshooting logging issues and establishing reliable log flows.
• Collaborate with performance engineers and platform teams to optimize system visibility.
• Contribute code and automation to reduce toil and support scalable observability.
• Ensure compliance and consistency in observability practices across teams.

Key Skills & Experience:

• 6+ years of relevant IT experience, with recent focus in observability or performance engineering.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry and related tooling.
• Proficiency in coding (Java, C/C++, Python, or others).
• 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

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology