Join Optomi's performance-focused SRE team as a Senior Observability Engineer. Leverage automation, telemetry, and coding to enhance system visibility and reliability. Drive adoption of OpenTelemetry and optimize system-level visibility.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Senior Observability Engineer
*12-month contract-to-hire or long-term contract depending on location*
Fully Remote
Optomi, in partnership with our premier client in the financial services industry is seeking an Observability Engineer with deep technical expertise to join a performance-focused SRE team. This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, product development, and infrastructure—leveraging automation, telemetry, and hands-on coding to enhance system visibility and reliability.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead efforts to improve monitoring posture across new and existing services.
- Drive adoption and implementation of OpenTelemetry across product teams.
- Support product launch readiness by ensuring observability tooling is fully deployed and functional.
- Help teams troubleshoot logging issues and establish reliable log flows.
- Work closely with performance engineers and platform teams to optimize system-level visibility.
- Contribute code and automation to reduce toil and support scalable observability.
- Collaborate across teams to ensure compliance and consistency in observability practices.
Key Skills & Experience:
- 6+ years of relevant IT experience, with recent focus in observability or performance engineering.
- Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry and observability tooling.
- Demonstrated coding ability (language-agnostic; Java, C/C++, Python, etc. all welcome).
- Experience with cloud environments (cloud-agnostic preferred).
- Experience with Elastic Stack and Grafana.
- Hands-on experience deploying tooling and debugging telemetry/logging pipelines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.