Senior Software Engineer – SRE, Observability Focus
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Senior Software Engineer / SRE focusing on observability capabilities for platform reliability. Working with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and observability platforms to enhance performance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain software, APIs, integrations, and automation that support platform reliability and observability
- Support monitoring, reliability, maintenance, and continuous improvement across internal platforms and systems
- Work in Kubernetes-based environments across deployment, operations, and monitoring activities
- Build and maintain observability solutions with a focus on Datadog
- Configure dashboards, alerts, application performance monitoring, tracing, metrics, and logging
- Monitor containerized and microservices-based applications
- Integrate observability platforms and monitoring capabilities into AWS environments
- Integrate observability capabilities into CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
- Automate monitoring and operational tasks through scripting, with Python preferred
- Install and configure Datadog agents and integrations
- Manage observability API keys and secure configurations
- Manage user roles, permissions, and access controls within observability platforms
- Lead proactive maintenance efforts and platform improvements
- Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency
Requirements:
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Python, JavaScript using Node.js, or Java
- Hands-on experience designing, consuming, and implementing API integrations
- Strong Kubernetes experience covering deployment, operations, and monitoring
- Hands-on experience with Datadog or a comparable observability platform such as Prometheus or Grafana
- Experience configuring dashboards, alerts, application performance monitoring, tracing, metrics, and logging
- Experience monitoring containerized and microservices-based architectures
- Hands-on AWS experience
- Experience integrating observability tooling into cloud environments
- Experience integrating observability capabilities into CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to automate monitoring and operational work through scripting
Benefits:
- Remote contract opportunity
- Full-time allocation of 40 hours per week

















