Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Observability Engineer

• Focus: Build and evolve an observability platform (O11Y)

Description

Help shape how an observability platform is designed, built, and continuously improved. You will work on monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, automation, and data-driven anomaly detection. You’ll also contribute to a unified observability strategy in collaboration with architects and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and improve the current observability platform across monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting

• Design and implement observability solutions to provide deeper insights into system and service status

• Create decision-support dashboards so teams know when and how to act

• Automate monitoring and alerting, enrich alert data with additional context, and apply machine learning for anomaly detection where appropriate

• Collaborate across teams to maintain end-to-end visibility into system and service performance

• Develop an organization-wide observability strategy aligned with business and operational goals

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience, including part of it in observability

• Strong hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack)

• Experience handling and storing large volumes of structured and unstructured data

• Strong Linux skills and ability to script/program in Bash, Python, and Golang

• Solid understanding of system administration principles for both cloud and on-prem environments

• Deep understanding of DevOps principles

• Ability to work independently, organize work with multiple concurrent tasks, and take ownership

• Strong communication skills, collaboration, and experience creating documentation across teams

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field (Computer Science/Engineering) or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary with a variable compensation component

• 5 weeks of vacation, 3 sick days, and time off for birthdays

• Technical training, certifications, conference participation, support from an experienced international team, and career growth opportunities

• Private clinic membership and Multisport card contribution

• Pension savings contribution of 3% of base monthly salary

• Pluxee benefit card (14,000 CZK) and 55% contribution toward Pluxee meal card, plus additional benefits