Observability Platform Engineering Lead

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly scalable, fault‑tolerant distributed systems and services
• Lead the architecture and build of high-throughput data streaming pipelines
• Develop and own observability for systems: metrics, tracing, structured logging, dashboards, alerts and SLOs
• Implement application instrumentation and collaborate with platform teams to standardize telemetry and monitoring practices
• Use AWS native services to deliver robust solutions
• Design and enforce secure networking and firewall architectures
• Write production‑quality code and tests in at least one major language
• Own CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Drive projects end‑to‑end: translate product requirements, create execution plans, identify risks
• Mentor engineers and improve team practices around reliability, scalability, and operability

• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating highly available, highly scalable production systems
• Deep knowledge of observability: metrics, tracing, logging formats specially Open Telemetry
• Experience implementing application instrumentation libraries and sidecars
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, load balancing, NAT, DNS, VPC design, security groups, firewalls, and TLS
• Proven experience building solutions using AWS native services
• Experience designing and building real‑time/high‑speed streaming pipelines
• Hands‑on coding: able to implement, debug, and ship production code
• Experience with building containerized applications using Docker and container orchestration
• Excellent written and verbal communication