Staff Platform Engineer – Observability

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

📋 Description

• Create and manage an observability-as-a-service platform that optimizes performance while controlling costs.

• Design self-service golden pathways for developer instrumentation.

• Ensure reliable systems for collection, storage, querying, and alerting at scale.

• Guarantee that the observability platform can identify its own failures.

• Assess the current platform and recommend enhancements.

• Take full ownership of the observability stack from start to finish.

• Advance the Kubernetes-based infrastructure.

• Develop abstractions that empower teams to oversee their own observability.

• Establish standards and guidelines through RFCs.

• Collaborate on designs, evaluate proposals, mentor engineers, and act as a technical resource.

• Create tools and automation using Go, Ruby, or Python.

• Ensure stability, performance, cost efficiency, and ongoing evolution of the platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must have prior experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Software Engineering, and Observability Practices utilizing open source solutions.

• Proven experience in building and maintaining observability at scale, covering metrics, logs, and traces.

• Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS, or GCP or Azure, including an understanding of networking and data-transfer costs.

• Exceptional communication skills in both English and Portuguese.

• Profound, hands-on experience with open source observability tools like Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, or Tempo.

• Experience with OpenTelemetry collection and instrumentation.

• Specialized knowledge in high-cardinality data, retention and storage, query performance, and reliability of observability platforms.

• Experience in developing products for engineers, focusing on adoption, ownership, and developer experience.

• Strong software engineering capabilities with proficiency in writing code for tools and automation.

• Fluent spoken and written English and Portuguese.

• Bonus: Expertise in cost optimization for high-volume telemetry (FinOps).

• Bonus: Experience with internal tools, CLIs, Kubernetes operators, or Crossplane.

• Bonus: Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.

• Bonus: Ability to lead RFCs and provide technical guidance without having direct reports.

• Bonus: Possession of CNCF certifications such as CKA, CKS, CKAD, PCA, or OTCA.

🏝️ Benefits

• Complimentary Gold+ Wellhub membership offering access to onsite gyms and studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources.

• Option to include up to three family members in the Wellhub plan.

• Wellz emotional wellbeing program featuring personalized journeys, 52 individual therapy sessions annually, and on-demand content.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance.

• Flexible benefits program.

• Options for flexible work arrangements.

• Home office reimbursement.

• Vacation entitlement after 6 months of employment.

• Additional 3 days off per year.

• 1 extra day off for each year of service, up to a total of 5 additional days.

• An extra holiday to celebrate your birthday.

• Fully paid parental leave for all new parents.

• Extended leave and a gradual return period for parents who give birth.

• Access to top-tier learning platforms and interactive sessions.

• Tailored development roadmap.

• Opportunities for internal career advancement.

• Emphasis on continuous learning and feedback.

• An inclusive and collaborative workplace culture.

• Commitment to fair and equitable compensation practices.