Senior Software Engineer – SRE, Observability Focus

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Singapore.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain software, APIs, integrations, and automation that enhance platform reliability and observability.

• Facilitate monitoring, reliability, maintenance, and continuous enhancement across internal platforms and systems.

• Operate within Kubernetes-based environments, focusing on deployment, operations, and monitoring activities.

• Construct and uphold observability solutions, particularly utilizing Datadog.

• Set up dashboards, alerts, application performance monitoring, tracing, metrics, and logging.

• Oversee the monitoring of containerized and microservices-oriented applications.

• Merge observability platforms and monitoring functionalities into AWS environments.

• Incorporate observability features into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

• Automate monitoring and operational processes through scripting, preferably using Python.

• Install and set up Datadog agents and integrations.

• Manage observability API keys and ensure secure configurations.

• Administer user roles, permissions, and access controls within observability platforms.

• Spearhead proactive maintenance initiatives and platform enhancements.

• Propel improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in at least one of Python, JavaScript using Node.js, or Java.

• Practical experience in designing, consuming, and implementing API integrations.

• In-depth Kubernetes experience encompassing deployment, operations, and monitoring.

• Hands-on familiarity with Datadog or a similar observability platform like Prometheus or Grafana.

• Experience in configuring dashboards, alerts, application performance monitoring, tracing, metrics, and logging.

• Experience in monitoring containerized and microservices-based architectures.

• Practical AWS experience.

• Proven experience in integrating observability tools into cloud environments.

• Experience in incorporating observability capabilities into CI/CD pipelines.

• Capability to automate monitoring and operational tasks through scripting.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote contract opportunity.

• Full-time allocation of 40 hours per week.