Senior Observability Engineer (FOCUS Framework)

  • Irvine, CA
  • Posted 3 hours ago | Updated 3 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Long Term

Skills

Senior Observability Engineer
OpenTelemetry SDKs
FOCUS framework

Job Details

Job Title:

Senior Observability Engineer (FOCUS Framework)

Location:

Irvine, CA (Day 1 Onsite Local candidates only; must attend in-person interview)

Employment Type:

C2C

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to design, implement, and enhance real-time monitoring and observability solutions for mission-critical, customer-facing systems. This role will focus on implementing OpenTelemetry-based observability, developing SDKs for consistent instrumentation, building AWS-native data pipelines, and delivering actionable dashboards. The position is part of a high-visibility initiative to ensure proactive alerting, operational transparency, and system health monitoring across backend services.

Key Responsibilities

  • Instrument backend services using OpenTelemetry SDKs for logs, traces, and metrics.

  • Design, build, and extend observability SDKs/libraries to enable consistent instrumentation.

  • Integrate observability pipelines with the FOCUS framework.

  • Configure and manage AWS services including OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Kinesis Data Streams/KDA, Lambda, and QuickSight.

  • Build and deploy QuickSight dashboards for real-time health monitoring.

  • Implement near real-time alerting and automated escalation mechanisms.

  • Extend observability coverage to additional services (e.g., Catalog-air).

  • Define performance baselines and implement anomaly detection rules.

  • Collaborate with backend and DevOps teams to ensure scalable and secure observability pipelines.

  • Develop documentation including runbooks, architecture diagrams, and onboarding guides.

Must-Have Skills

  • 5+ years of backend or DevOps engineering experience focused on observability/monitoring.

  • Strong expertise with OpenTelemetry SDKs, APIs, instrumentation, and integrations.

  • Proficiency with AWS services: OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Kinesis Data Streams & Analytics, Lambda, QuickSight.

  • Experience building log/metric processing and visualization pipelines.

  • Proven ability to design and maintain SDKs/libraries for telemetry collection.

  • Strong scripting skills in Node.js, Python, or TypeScript.

  • Experience monitoring distributed systems and microservices architectures.

  • Solid understanding of security and privacy best practices in observability.

Good-to-Have Skills

  • Exposure to GraphQL APIs and AWS AppSync instrumentation.

  • Familiarity with AI/LLM-assisted logging enrichment.

  • Experience with runtime application monitoring (browser or In-Flight Entertainment environment).

  • Knowledge of performance benchmarking, SLIs/SLOs, and reliability metrics.

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