Observability Specialist
Skills
DatabasesEvolutionFinanceGrafanaHoneycombPremisesProduct Road Mapping
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in observability SRE platform engineering infrastructure engineering backend engineering or production systems engineering
- Deep understanding of metrics logging tracing profiling alerting dashboards service-level indicators and incident response workflows at scale
- Experience building internal tools libraries automation or platforms used by other engineers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Pragmatic judgment about when to improve tooling when to simplify and when to avoid unnecessary complexity
- Experience learning analyzing and working on other people’s code
- Proficiency in at least one backend language preferably Python
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry Jaeger Tempo Loki Honeycomb Sentry or similar systems
- Experience with at least some of our stack Postgres CockroachDB Redis GraphQL or Kubernetes
- Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and collector configuration at scale
Nice to have
- Bias for action
- Growth mindset
- Mentoring ability
- Mission driven
- Pragmatic judgment
Day to day
- Own and evolve Wave’s observability platform across backend services databases Kubernetes workloads cloud infrastructure and on-premises environments
- Improve how engineers detect problems understand system behaviour resolve incidents quickly and make better reliability and performance decisions
- Build internal tooling and self-service workflows that help teams instrument services investigate incidents analyse performance and understand dependencies
Hiring process
- Fill out the form below
- Upload a resume in English
- Upload a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role