Data platform SRE Observability Engineer

Emerging Travel Group

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About The Position

The Data Platform SRE Observability Engineer focuses on infrastructure reliability and monitoring across the organization’s data and infrastructure stacks. The role develops end-to-end monitoring for systems including Trino, Kubernetes, databases, Apache Ozone, and Hadoop; automates collection of DORA metrics; builds service-health dashboards; and improves monitoring coverage and alerting. The engineer also serves as the team’s monitoring expert, supporting reliable, actionable observability while reducing routine dashboard and alerting work for team leads.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of DevOps/SRE experience and at least 5 years of experience in IT.
• Experience as an SRE or monitoring engineer, emphasizing infrastructure reliability rather than product feature development.
• Experience with Python.
• Deep knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager, including writing complex PromQL queries and addressing alert fatigue.
• Practical understanding of SLI/SLO/SLA concepts, error budgets, and the methodology for collecting DORA metrics.
• Experience with Kubernetes and databases, and the ability to quickly understand metrics for distributed systems such as Hadoop and Trino.
• Ability to translate abstract system behavior and logs into clear, structured, actionable metrics.
• Experience working with ClickHouse, Vertica, StarRocks, or Greenplum.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Go or JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end monitoring for infrastructure stacks, including Trino, Kubernetes, databases, Apache Ozone, and Hadoop.
• Implement automatic collection of DORA metrics and create high-level health dashboards to visualize service uptime.
• Audit existing metrics and address infrastructure monitoring gaps, particularly in Kubernetes, databases, and distributed storage systems.
• Optimize and update Alertmanager rules to detect incidents and anomalies before they affect users or are manually noticed.
• Serve as the single point of expertise in monitoring, reducing team leads’ routine dashboard configuration and alerting support tasks.

Benefits

• Fully flexible work schedule.
• Choice of fully remote, office-based, or hybrid work format.
• Internal programs for onboarding and training, soft-skills development, and leadership development, tailored to each employee.
• Partial compensation for external training and conferences.
• Group and individual English lessons and speaking clubs.
• Corporate prices on hotels and other travel services.
• MyTime Day Off, an extra day off for health, rest, personal matters, or other important activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed