Observability Engineer

About the role

A career with Point72’s Technology team offers the opportunity to architect, build, and run central observability platforms, contributing to the firm's innovation in AI-driven decision-making and platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and run central observability platforms for the firm.
• Develop telemetry collection, processing, enrichment, and routing pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and events.
• Implement and maintain open-source telemetry instrumentation standards and deployment patterns.
• Build scalable ingestion and storage architectures using cloud native technologies.
• Optimize telemetry cost, performance, retention, and reliability.
• Participate in incident investigations and drive root-cause analysis for observability platform issues.
• Develop dashboards, reporting capabilities, and service level monitoring frameworks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a closely related field.
• 4 years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency in Python or Rust.
• Working knowledge of GitHub or other CI/CD platforms.
• Experience deploying observability solutions to Linux and virtualized environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Comfort building infrastructure with Terraform.
• Demonstrated track record of managing observability platforms such as Datadog and Splunk.
• Experience with site reliability engineering best practices, including logging, telemetry, and SLA management.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Qualifications

• Experience with data analytics around large data sets.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Skills

• Python or Rust proficiency.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Terraform experience.
• Site reliability engineering best practices.
• Data analytics expertise.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including fully-paid health care, generous parental and family leave, mental and physical wellness programs, volunteer opportunities, non-profit matching gift program, tuition assistance, and a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000-$250,000 (USD), which does not include discretionary bonus compensation. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from the posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

Schedule

Full-time position.