Observability Engineer

About the role

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Observability Engineer to design and operate the metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms that give engineering teams confidence in the systems they run. This is a 100% remote, full‑time, direct W2 position based in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms
• Manage the full observability stack: collection agents, pipelines, long‑term storage, dashboards, and alerting workflows
• Focus on usability, signal quality, and operational ROI

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Five or more years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or observability roles
• Deep hands‑on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and at least one major commercial observability platform (Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk)
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and structured logging
• Proficiency in at least one general‑purpose language such as Go, Python, or Java
• Experience operating high‑cardinality, high‑throughput metrics and log pipelines
• Solid grasp of SLOs, error budgets, and SRE principles
• Experience integrating observability with CI/CD and incident management tooling
• Understanding of Linux internals, networking, and container platforms
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Qualifications

• Experience with Thanos, Mimir, Cortex, Loki, or Tempo at scale
• Contributions to OpenTelemetry or observability open‑source projects
• Familiarity with eBPF‑based observability tooling
• Experience driving observability cost optimization initiatives
• Exposure to regulated environments with audit‑grade logging requirements

Pay

Salary range: $89,000–$110,000 annually.