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Staff Observability Engineer

About the role

• Lead end-to-end observability design, telemetry schemas, and OpenTelemetry pipeline architectures
• Partner with engineering and product teams to define SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and production-readiness requirements
• Architect AI observability solutions for Amazon Bedrock and agentic workflows
• Track model selection, latency, retries, token usage, tool execution, and cost attribution
• Establish traceability across user requests, prompts, model calls, retrieved context, downstream services, and final responses
• Maintain data privacy and security controls
• Develop dashboards, alerts, SLOs, runbooks, and operational views
• Drive incident diagnosis, performance optimization, and economic sustainability
• Define measurable signals for response quality, groundedness, guardrail outcomes, and task completion
• Participate in an on-call rotation approximately 20% of the time
• Drive failure injection, production testing, and capacity planning
• Collaborate with SRE, MLOps, data engineering, security, product, and non-technical stakeholders

• 6+ years in Site Reliability, Observability, or Platform Engineering supporting 24x7x365 production systems
• Deep experience with OpenTelemetry and platforms such as Datadog, Sumo Logic, Prometheus, or Grafana
• Experience designing observability for distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous workflows
• Hands-on experience instrumenting AI/ML or GenAI systems
• Proficiency with Amazon Bedrock or similar platforms
• Familiarity with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, vector databases, RAG architectures, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or SageMaker
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or Go
• Strong AWS expertise, including cloud networking, IAM, security, and service quotas
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, and containers, including Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions
• Experience with data modeling, telemetry pipelines, cardinality management, retention, responsible AI, and data privacy controls
• Strong communication, mentoring, and cross-functional leadership skills

• Performance-based bonus eligibility
• Equity options
• 15 hours of paid work time annually for volunteer activities and programs
• Remote-first working
• New hire stipends for home office setup
• New hire equity grants
• Paid time off
• Extended paid parental leave
• Company holidays
• Health and wellness programs covering physical, mental, social, and financial well-being
• Professional development opportunities
• Over 6,000 on-demand courses
• Manager and leadership development programs
• Health and related benefits programs