Senior Cloud Engineer – Observability Platform
Location: Westlake, TX or Merrimack, NH
Duration: Contract
The Role
Do you want to work on leading-edge cloud technologies that are transforming how developers build and scale applications?
As a Senior Cloud Engineer in the Observability Platform team, you will work within a diverse group of passionate technologists who believe in the power of innovation and collaboration. We believe small, empowered, self-motivated teams can achieve outstanding results.
You’ll be contributing to the Foundation & Pipelines squad, which supports the build, deployment, and operation of a new OpenTelemetry (OTEL) observability platform focused on metrics and traces. This role will drive platform enhancements including security, resiliency, and new feature development.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and support scalable, resilient applications and systems in the cloud.
- Contribute to observability platform initiatives for metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Develop APIs and automation in Python (or Go).
- Build and deploy applications in AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, etc.).
- Deploy and manage workloads in Kubernetes environments.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
- Troubleshoot Linux-based distributed systems and networking issues.
- Collaborate in paired programming and Agile practices with team members.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in engineering and supporting distributed, multi-tiered systems at scale.
- Strong programming experience in Python (or Go).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization (Docker).
- Strong AWS experience (EC2, EKS, Lambda, Step Functions).
- Solid CI/CD experience (Jenkins or similar).
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation).
- Experience troubleshooting Linux systems and networking (DNS, load balancers, routers).
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with observability tools: Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, FluentBit, etc.
- UI development (React, Node.js).
- AWS certification.
- Experience delivering secure, resilient platforms at enterprise scale.
👉 This role is not a DevOps Engineer position. Candidates focused only on pipelines, infra automation, or operations without strong coding experience will not be considered.
