Lead Site Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

Role: Lead Site Observability Engineer

Description

Hands-on lead for observability architecture supporting migrations from third-party tools to the SAP One Observability target stack. You will design telemetry flows for metrics, traces, and logs with OpenTelemetry and coordinate across SAP line-of-business and platform/SRE/operations stakeholders. You’ll lead workstreams, identify gaps/risks, and produce migration-readiness and architecture decision documentation.

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 with hands-on work in production
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry Collector, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Expertise designing telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces (receivers, processors, exporters, routing)
• Experience leading complex 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

Benefits

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

Note: Benefits are available to employees; contractors can be considered with B2B terms agreed individually.