Monitoring Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • San Diego, CA

3d • $75,000 - $85,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Monitoring Engineer to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that help engineering teams confidently operate their systems. The role spans the observability stack, including collection agents and pipelines, long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows, with an emphasis on usability, signal quality, and operational return on investment. The successful candidate will have experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, understand trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and be able to turn noisy telemetry into actionable insight for engineering teams and business stakeholders.

This is a 100% remote, full-time direct W-2 position in the United States. The listed salary range is $75,000–$85,000 annually. The posting states six or more years of experience in its position details, while the required qualifications specify five or more years in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles. The company cannot sponsor new H-1B petitions; U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles; the position details also state six or more years of experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Go, Python, or Java.
• Experience operating high-cardinality, high-throughput metrics and log pipelines.
• Strong understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and SRE principles.
• Experience integrating observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling.
• Solid grasp of Linux internals, networking, and container platforms.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Loki, or Tempo at scale.
• Contributions to OpenTelemetry or observability open-source projects.
• Familiarity with eBPF-based observability tooling.
• Experience driving observability cost optimization initiatives.
• Exposure to regulated environments with audit-grade logging requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms.
• Manage the observability stack, including collection agents and pipelines, long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows.
• Build and operate observability platforms at scale, emphasizing usability, signal quality, and operational ROI.
• Translate telemetry into actionable insights for engineering teams and business stakeholders.
• Integrate observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling.
• Drive observability cost optimization initiatives (preferred qualification).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior