Observability Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies•Piscataway Township, NJ

3d•$100,000 - $160,000•Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Observability Engineer to design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that help engineering teams operate their systems with confidence. The role covers the full observability stack, from collection agents and pipelines through long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows, with an emphasis on usability, signal quality, and operational return on investment. The successful candidate will have built and operated observability platforms at scale, understand the trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and be able to translate telemetry into actionable insights for engineers and business stakeholders. This is a full-time, direct W2 position that is 100% remote within the United States. The stated annual salary range is $100,000–$160,000. The employer encourages applications from U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and candidates seeking an H-1B transfer, but cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Ten or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
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 enterprise-grade observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, events, and synthetic monitoring.
Architect Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog deployments for high availability and scale.
Develop service instrumentation standards, including OpenTelemetry adoption, metric naming, label cardinality, and structured logging conventions.
Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, and build dashboards and alerts to operationalize them.
Build alerting strategies that reduce noise, surface actionable signals, and integrate with on-call workflows through PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or similar tools.
Operate large-scale time-series and log storage platforms while balancing retention, query performance, and cost.
Design distributed tracing pipelines and help teams use traces to diagnose latency and reliability issues.
Develop self-service tooling, paved-road libraries, and templates that make observability standards easy for product teams to adopt.
Drive cost management and label-cardinality discipline across the observability estate.
Improve incident response readiness through better dashboards, alerting hygiene, and post-incident analysis tooling.
Partner with SRE and platform teams to integrate observability into deployment pipelines, canary analysis, and progressive delivery workflows.
Evaluate and recommend observability vendors and open-source tools based on cost, capability, and operational maturity.
Mentor engineering teams on observability fundamentals, debugging techniques, and SLO-driven operations.
Maintain documentation, onboarding guides, and runbooks for the observability platform.