Lead Site Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Site Observability Engineer (hands-on lead)
• Focus: Observability architecture and migration to SAP One Observability target stack
• Main technologies: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana

Description

Lead hands-on observability migrations to SAP One Observability, transitioning from third-party observability tools to an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry architecture. Design telemetry flows for metrics, traces, and logs, coordinate with SAP and platform operations teams, and drive technical decisions and documentation. Present progress, risks, and recommendations to 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 lines of business, 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 with hands-on production experience using OpenTelemetry Collector, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Expertise designing telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces, including receivers, processors, exporters, and routing
• Experience leading complex technical migrations from tools such as 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

Benefits

• Hybrid-by-design work model with opportunity to work remotely within Poland
• Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually and potential business-driven relocation
• Career development programs and mentoring/soft-skills/well-being programs
• Certification support (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes
• Stable pay and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount)
• Benefits package (health insurance, MultiSport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Office amenities (entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis/football, free snacks and coffee)
• Corporate, social, and well-being events

Note: Benefits apply to employees; contractor (B2B) terms are agreed individually.