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$178,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Set technical direction for observability, including instrumentation, alerting, and dashboard design patterns.
  • Own and evolve metrics, logging, and distributed tracing pipelines across multiple data centers.
  • Mentor engineers and partner with SRE, Storage Engineering, and Network Engineering on observability best practices.

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US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead a two-month observability maturity assessment across metrics, logs, and traces at massive scale.
  • Drive consolidation to AWS-native observability on OpenTelemetry, including pipelines, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Act as Pod Leader: set technical direction, stay hands-on, and own the customer relationship.

EverOps is the premier Embedded Service Provider, partnering directly with customer engineering teams to assess and address mission-critical infrastructure, cloud, and delivery challenges. We've been remote since day one, and our culture centers on ownership, technical leadership, and continuous professional growth.

US 24w maternity 24w paternity

  • Architect and build the observability platform for metrics, logs, traces, and events across global infrastructure.
  • Drive instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, building shared libraries and collector deployments for correlated signals.
  • Run observability as an internal product with published interfaces, versioned clients, and SLOs to ensure adoption.

Smartsheet empowers teams to manage work and scale solutions, uniting human teams with AI agents to automate tasks and uncover insights. With over 20 years of experience, the company fosters a collaborative, innovative culture focused on employee well-being and professional growth.

US

  • Design, build, and operate high-scale observability pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and exceptions.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to resolve scaling bottlenecks and evolve production infrastructure safely.
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve observability tools and provide technical leadership across teams.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform that connects candidates with hiring companies. It emphasizes learning, professional growth, and an inclusive work environment.

Brazil

  • Architect unified observability frameworks covering metrics, logs, traces, and events using tools such as Instana, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and InfluxDB.
  • Lead SRE practices, incident response, and automation initiatives across cloud-native and legacy environments.
  • Establish enterprise monitoring standards, mentor teams, and drive reliability improvements in a fully remote Brazil-based role.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform that connects candidates with relevant roles through objective skills-based reviews. Its partner company is a global technology organization seeking an experienced observability engineer and values engineering excellence, automation, and collaboration.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Lead a globally distributed observability team building and operating metrics, logging, alerting, and capacity planning platforms.
  • Set priorities with Site Reliability Engineering, Product Engineering, and GitLab Dedicated teams while owning reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Participate in incident response and on-call rotations, using SLOs, error budgets, and AI tools to improve alerting and sustain operational load.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation. With more than 50 million registered users and a high-performance culture driven by shared values and AI adoption, GitLab's globally distributed team collaborates to solve complex problems.

Canada 5w PTO

  • Lead multi-month engineering initiatives for a distributed tracing platform, from technical design to production operations.
  • Own and improve backend components across data ingestion, storage, query processing, and metrics generation.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and build scalable APIs for observability and AI-powered workflows.

Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools, including the Tempo distributed tracing platform. This remote-first, globally distributed team values autonomy, transparency, and open-source collaboration.

$120,078–$144,094/yr
North America 6w PTO

  • Own technical direction for Tempo, the open-source tracing backend, on multi-month initiatives spanning design, delivery, and operations.
  • Own major components like ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation while driving operational excellence through automation and SLOs.
  • Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, staff, and community teams to evolve Tempo into a platform for observability products.

Grafana Labs builds Grafana Cloud, a managed observability platform trusted by 10,000+ organizations. We are 100% remote with team members in 40+ countries and a collaborative, open-source-driven culture.

Canada Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Own end-to-end development of AI observability features, from ingestion to visualization.
  • Architect data models and infrastructure for observing AI agents across Honeycomb.
  • Partner with product and design to build intuitive workflows and share best practices.

Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps developers debug complex distributed systems, serving customers like HelloFresh and Slack. The company has surpassed 200 employees, closed Series D funding, and fosters a distributed-first, inclusive, and high-trust culture.

Germany Sweden Spain Ireland UK 6w PTO

  • Manage and develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting career growth.
  • Collaborate closely with go-to-market and engineering leadership to ensure seamless integration of Fleet Management, Kubernetes Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub.
  • Foster a psychologically safe environment that encourages learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations for reliability and telemetry optimization. As a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, Grafana Labs fosters a global, collaborative culture that values transparency, autonomy, and meaningful work.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs in Go with a focus on clarity and maintainability.
  • Build and maintain full-stack product features using React, TypeScript, and Go.
  • Provide technical leadership on multi-team projects, mentoring engineers and shaping roadmaps.

Honeycomb is a modern observability platform that helps developers understand and debug complex distributed systems. With over 200 employees and Series D funding, it's a fully distributed, inclusive company that values impact, autonomy, and humility.

$170,000–$209,000/yr
US

  • Serve as technical lead for the Dynatrace practice, guiding delivery quality and mentoring consultants.
  • Lead customer-facing observability strategy engagements, delivering maturity assessments and roadmaps.
  • Apply deep hands-on expertise with the Dynatrace SaaS platform including Grail, DQL, OpenPipeline, Workflows, and Davis AI.

Trace3 is a leading Transformative IT Authority that provides unique technology solutions and consulting services. With over 1,200 employees across the United States, the company embodies the spirit of a startup with a scalable business culture.

Global

  • Design and develop reliable, scalable backend services and APIs in Go.
  • Build features for monitoring, observability, and management of database environments.
  • Work with OpenTelemetry, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development.

Percona provides open-source database software, support, and services to enable everyone to innovate freely. We are a remote-only, globally dispersed team of experts across more than 50 countries with a collaborative, highly-engaged culture.

$158,000–$248,000/yr
US

  • Own and evolve the product roadmap for Observability and Compute/Network teams, from metrics and alerting to Kubernetes and capacity planning.
  • Partner with engineering and security leaders to prioritize reliability, cost, and developer experience.
  • Drive self-service adoption and track outcomes like SLO attainment, MTTD/MTTR, and infrastructure cost.

Addepar is a global data and AI platform that empowers investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. More than 1,500 firms in 60 countries use Addepar to manage nearly $10 trillion in assets, with an inclusive, ownership-driven culture.

$239,000–$298,800/yr
North America

  • Define and build the platform Mercury engineers use to deploy, operate, and evolve services.
  • Own the strategy for service identity, authentication, discovery, and communication.
  • Partner with engineering teams to create a paved deployment path and self-service observability.

Mercury is a fintech company that provides banking services to startups and businesses through partner banks. The company values diversity and belonging and is building an infrastructure team to support its rapidly evolving services ecosystem.

Canada 6w PTO

  • Drive the evolution of backend architecture for Session Replay, including columnar data storage and query patterns.
  • Lead the design of investigation workflows connecting replay with logs, metrics, and traces across Grafana Cloud.
  • Engage directly with customers to understand their needs and help them instrument and adopt Session Replay successfully.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, an observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with a global collaborative culture and a passion for meaningful work.

Global 6w PTO

  • Act as a top-tier subject matter expert on strategic deals and complex technical challenges, supporting Sales and Solution Engineering.
  • Own creation and maintenance of technical training content and reference architectures for Grafana products.
  • Mentor senior engineers and influence product direction while representing Field Engineering in planning cycles.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. With 100% remote work and teams in 40+ countries, we foster a collaborative, innovation-driven culture backed by leading investors.

$250,000–$250,000/yr
Global

  • Build Exoware's production environment from the ground up, automating deployment, scaling, upgrades, and recovery.
  • Build CI/CD, monitoring, telemetry, and operational tooling across Kubernetes, ECS, and cloud services.
  • Design for data safety, availability, and security while feeding production insights back into the underlying software.

Commonware builds open-source primitives for high-performance decentralized systems. The small, distributed team includes engineers from top crypto companies and has raised over $30 million.

United States Canada 6w PTO

  • Build and ship end-to-end features for cloud integrations and observability applications, spanning frontend, backend, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Work with TypeScript/React, Go, and Jsonnet, owning projects from concept through production.
  • Contribute to open-source observability technologies like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, and participate in on-call rotations.

Jobgether is a platform that uses AI-powered matching to connect candidates with job opportunities. It operates with a remote-first, globally distributed team, and focuses on transparency and efficient hiring.

$161,200–$201,800/yr
Canada Unlimited PTO 20w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design, build, test, and document core software components as part of an engineering team.
  • Own running services by building for observability, participating in incident response, and handling escalations.
  • Improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.

Tailscale provides software to securely interconnect people and devices, making safe connection effortless. Founded in 2019, they are fully distributed and backed by prominent investors, fostering an inclusive and flexible remote-first culture.

$125,000–$145,000/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Assist in developing and maintaining observability strategies for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Support adoption of observability best practices and tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and contribute to automation.

Binance.US is a licensed and regulated U.S. cryptocurrency exchange where users can buy, trade, hold, and earn digital assets. It is recognized as a top U.S. crypto platform with a remote-first culture focused on compliance, innovation, and user trust.