Senior Observability Engineer; FOCUS Framework

Position: Senior Observability Engineer (FOCUS Framework)
Job Title:

Senior Observability Engineer (FOCUS Framework)
Location:

Irvine, CA (Day 1 Onsite - Local candidates only; must attend in-person interview)
Employment Type:

C2C
Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to design, implement, and enhance real-time monitoring and observability solutions for mission-critical, customer-facing systems. This role will focus on implementing Open Telemetry-based observability, developing SDKs for consistent instrumentation, building AWS-native data pipelines, and delivering actionable dashboards. The position is part of a high-visibility initiative to ensure proactive alerting, operational transparency, and system health monitoring across backend services.
Key Responsibilities

• Instrument backend services using Open Telemetry SDKs for logs, traces, and metrics.
• Design, build, and extend observability SDKs/libraries to enable consistent instrumentation.
• Integrate observability pipelines with the FOCUS framework.
• Configure and manage AWS services including Open Search, Cloud Watch, Kinesis Data Streams/KDA, Lambda, and Quick Sight.
• Build and deploy Quick Sight dashboards for real-time health monitoring.
• Implement near real-time alerting and automated escalation mechanisms.
• Extend observability coverage to additional services (e.g., Catalog-air).
• Define performance baselines and implement anomaly detection rules.
• Collaborate with backend and Dev Ops teams to ensure scalable and secure observability pipelines.
• Develop documentation including runbooks, architecture diagrams, and onboarding guides.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of backend or Dev Ops engineering experience focused on observability/monitoring.
• Strong expertise with Open Telemetry SDKs, APIs, instrumentation, and integrations.
• Proficiency with AWS services: Open Search, Cloud Watch, Kinesis Data Streams & Analytics, Lambda, Quick Sight.
• Experience building log/metric processing and visualization pipelines.
• Proven ability to design and maintain SDKs/libraries for telemetry collection.
• Strong scripting skills in Node.js, Python, or Type Script .
• Experience monitoring distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Solid understanding of security and privacy best practices in observability.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Exposure to Graph
  
  QL APIs and AWS App Sync instrumentation.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM-assisted logging enrichment.
• Experience with runtime application monitoring (browser or In-Flight Entertainment environment).
• Knowledge of performance benchmarking, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability metrics.