Technical Expert Engineer (North America, Remote)

VictoriaMetrics; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible schedule

Service agreement contract

Job summary

VictoriaMetrics is seeking an experienced engineer to resolve complex customer issues and improve observability systems. You will reproduce challenging problems, work with developers on durable fixes, and create tooling, monitoring, and shared guidance while engaging customers with urgency.

This fully remote role requires 4–5 years in a senior technical role, strong troubleshooting for distributed systems, Kubernetes experience, Linux knowledge, and proficiency in Go or scripting.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years in a senior technical role such as software development, SRE, performance engineering, or systems engineering.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience investigating distributed systems and infrastructure.
• Practical Kubernetes experience and solid Linux knowledge.
• Strong programming or scripting ability; Go is an advantage.
• Clear English communication, including the ability to explain complex technical issues.
• Ownership, urgency with external customer issues, and comfort adapting as processes evolve.

Responsibilities

• Investigate difficult customer problems and reproduce them in sandbox environments, including under load.
• Partner with developers to diagnose and resolve product issues.
• Create internal tools for observability, automation, problem detection, and operational efficiency.
• Develop monitoring, dashboards, runbooks, and guides for internal use.
• Lead root cause analysis and document durable solutions in a shared knowledge base.
• Coordinate with engineering, customer success, and solution engineering, including during critical incidents.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Kubernetes

Linux

Go/scripting

English communication

Ownership & urgency

Job description

Role overview

Build deep technical expertise that helps resolve complex customer issues and improves how internal teams support and operate observability systems. You will reproduce challenging problems, work with developers on lasting fixes, and create tooling, monitoring, and shared guidance. The position suits an experienced systems or software engineer who is comfortable combining technical investigation with customer-facing urgency.

Responsibilities

• Investigate difficult customer problems and reproduce them in sandbox environments, including under load.
• Partner with developers to diagnose and resolve product issues.
• Create internal tools for observability, automation, problem detection, and operational efficiency.
• Develop monitoring, dashboards, runbooks, and guides for internal use.
• Lead root cause analysis and document durable solutions in a shared knowledge base.
• Coordinate with engineering, customer success, and solution engineering, including during critical incidents.

Requirements

• At least four to five years in a senior technical role such as software development, SRE, performance engineering, or systems engineering.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience investigating distributed systems and infrastructure.
• Practical Kubernetes experience and solid Linux knowledge.
• Strong programming or scripting ability; Go is an advantage.
• Clear English communication, including the ability to explain complex technical issues.
• Ownership, urgency with external customer issues, and comfort adapting as processes evolve.

Nice to have

• Experience with time-series databases or monitoring tools such as Grafana or Prometheus.
• Familiarity with log storage and analysis platforms.
• Experience with open-source technology and community participation.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote, flexible schedule; the preferred time zone is GMT−5 to GMT−8.
• Contract engagement through a service agreement; self-employed or sole proprietor arrangements are possible.