Systems Observability Specialist
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Systems Observability Specialist to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that help engineering teams confidently operate their systems. The role covers the full observability stack, including collection agents and pipelines, long-term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows, with emphasis on usability, signal quality, and operational return on investment. The ideal candidate has built and operated observability platforms at scale, understands trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and can 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 an equal opportunity employer and prohibits workplace harassment and discrimination.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.
- 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.
- Support platform usability, improve signal quality, and focus on operational return on investment.
- Translate telemetry into actionable insights for engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- Integrate observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
