Lead Site Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

Lead Site Observability Engineer focused on observability architecture and migrations to the SAP One Observability target stack.

Description

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Site Observability Engineer with strong Observability Architecture experience to support migrations from third-party observability tools to the SAP One Observability target stack. You will design telemetry flows for metrics, traces, and logs using OpenTelemetry and coordinate with SAP lines of business, BTP, GCO, SRE, and Operations teams. The role includes owning solution design decisions and documenting gaps, risks, and progress for technical and management stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Plan and technically lead migration front runners
• Design telemetry flows for metrics, traces, and logs using OpenTelemetry
• Coordinate with SAP LoBs, BTP, GCO, SRE, and Operations teams
• Identify feature gaps, risks, and architectural blockers
• Prepare architecture documents, decision logs, best practices, and migration-readiness reports
• Present progress and recommendations to technical and management stakeholders
• Lead teams and workstreams across platform, SRE, operations, and application teams
• Own solution design, technical decisions, and documentation of gaps and risks

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in observability architecture, including hands-on work with OpenTelemetry Collector, Prometheus, and Grafana in production environments
• Expertise in designing telemetry pipelines covering metrics, logs, and traces, including configuration of receivers, processors, exporters, and routing
• Experience leading complex technical migrations from Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, or Datadog to OpenTelemetry/cloud-native architectures
• Strong architecture, stakeholder-management, and communication skills
• Knowledge of cloud-native monitoring, telemetry routing, and observability platforms
• Familiarity with SAP BTP is an advantage

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, CNCF tools, and Jaeger
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and OpenSearch

Benefits

• Career development programs, thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills, and well-being programs
• Certification support (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS) and English classes
• Stable pay and participation in an Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
• Health insurance, multisport, and shopping vouchers
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Hybrid work (remote within Poland) with an opportunity to work abroad up to 60 days annually
• Corporate, social, and well-being events