Lead Site Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Site Observability Engineer (hands-on)
• Focus: Observability architecture and telemetry migration to SAP One Observability

Description

Lead and support migrations from third-party observability tools to the SAP One Observability target stack, with strong OpenTelemetry architecture experience. Design telemetry flows for metrics, traces, and logs, coordinate with SAP business and platform/SRE/operations teams, and drive architectural decisions and migration readiness reporting.

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 OpenTelemetry Collector, Prometheus, and Grafana in production
• Expertise in designing telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces, including receivers, processors, exporters, and 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
• SAP BTP knowledge 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
• Business-driven relocation opportunities
• Career development programs; mentoring and soft skills/well-being programs
• Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes
• Stable pay
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
• Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Office amenities and events; corporate, social, and well-being activities

Note

Benefits are available to employees only; B2B/contractor terms are agreed individually.