Systems Observability Specialist

Bright Vision Technologies • Wildwood, MO

16h • $135,000 - $155,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Systems Observability Specialist to design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that help engineering teams operate their systems confidently. The role covers the full 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 the trade-offs between open-source and SaaS approaches, and be able to turn noisy telemetry into actionable insights for engineering teams and business stakeholders.

This is a full-time, direct W-2 position based in the United States and performed 100% remotely. The salary range is $135,000–$155,000 annually. The posting lists six or more years of experience, while the required qualifications specify five or more years in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles.

U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. The employer cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

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 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 observability components across the full stack, from collection agents and pipelines through 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.

What This Job Offers

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