Sr. Principal Architect - Observability

What you'll do

• Lead observability platform architecture, standards, and best practices across logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
• Drive Observability MCP and agents for incident detection, triage, and recovery.
• Standardize observability tooling and processes, collaborate across teams, and help engineering teams adopt the platform.

What they ask for

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• At least 10+ years of software engineering/architect background and a track record delivering high-quality products at massive scale.
• Hands-on expertise with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Mimir, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics, and Jaeger/Zipkin.
• Experience writing high-quality code in Java/Scala/Go/Python and designing systems to meet business needs.

Nice to have

• Expertise in LLM orchestration frameworks and observability for AI agents; experience building observability agents for triage and root-cause analysis.
• Low-latency/high-throughput data processing expertise and open-source contributions to observability frameworks or platforms.

Pay

USD 261,800 - USD 392,600 base salary; USD 221,600 - USD 392,600 base salary

Tools

Java, Scala, Go, Python, Prometheus, Mimir, Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry

AI focus

Drive agentic incident detection, triage, and recovery using the Observability MCP and Observability Agents; build observability for AI agents, including latency, quality, evaluations, conversations, and tool/agent invocations.