OpenTelemetry Engineer (3-10 yrs)

We are seeking an experienced OpenTelemetry Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing and managing observability solutions, including logs, metrics, and traces, to ensure our applications' health, performance, and reliability. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of OpenTelemetry, monitoring tools, and dashboarding frameworks to deliver real-time insights into application behavior.

Key Responsibilities :

- OpenTelemetry Implementation : Integrate and configure OpenTelemetry SDKs, libraries, and agents to collect metrics, logs, and traces across distributed systems.

- Instrumentation : Collaborate with development teams to instrument code for improved observability using OpenTelemetry standards.

- Log Management : Design and implement log aggregation, storage, and querying solutions, ensuring efficient and secure access to logs.

- Metrics and Monitoring : Set up metrics collection pipelines and configure alerting thresholds for application and infrastructure performance.

- Dashboard Development : Create and maintain real-time dashboards using tools like Grafana, Kibana, or similar, for application health and analytics visualization.

- Troubleshooting : Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, application errors, and latency issues using collected telemetry data.

- Documentation and Standards : Develop best practices, standards, and guidelines for observability and logging across teams.

- Collaboration : Work closely with DevOps, SREs, and software engineers to integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines and application design.

Required Skills :

- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (SDKs, collectors, and exporters).

- Expertise in logging frameworks and tools like Elastic Stack (ELK), Fluentd, or Logstash.

- Proficiency in monitoring and visualization tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Kibana.

- Strong knowledge of distributed tracing systems like Jaeger or Zipkin.

- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and their observability solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).

- Understanding of containerized environments and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Docker.

- Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Go for instrumentation purposes.

- Solid understanding of application performance monitoring (APM) concepts and tools.

Preferred Skills :

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integrating observability into the DevOps lifecycle.

- Experience with security and compliance considerations in telemetry data handling.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to interpret large datasets.

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- 3+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, or a similar role.

- Proven track record of working with OpenTelemetry in production environments.