Lead Site Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

Lead hands-on migrations from third-party observability tools to the SAP One Observability target stack, using OpenTelemetry-based telemetry pipelines.

Description

We are looking for a 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 lead technical decision-making and documentation while coordinating with SAP and operations 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 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 mode with opportunity to work remotely within Poland; chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
• Career development programs, thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
• Certification (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
• Offices with entertainment and relaxation zones, free snacks, coffee, and corporate/social/well-being events