Observability Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Aurora, IL

1d • $89,000 - $110,000 • 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 confidently operate their systems. 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 experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, understand the trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and be able to turn noisy telemetry into actionable insights for engineering and business stakeholders.

This is a full-time, direct W-2 position that is 100% remote within the United States. Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Five 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 metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms.
• Manage the observability stack, including collection agents, pipelines, long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows.
• Promote usability, signal quality, and operational return on investment in observability systems.
• Translate telemetry into actionable insights for engineers and business stakeholders.
• Integrate observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling.

What This Job Offers

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