Principal Observability Platform Engineer
Nscale — United States · In-Person · Staff+ · $190k - $300k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
As a Principal/Staff Observability Platform Engineer, you'll own the technical direction of Nscale's observability platform, setting the architectural roadmap and ensuring the platform scales ahead of the business.
What You Will Do
Own the technical strategy and architecture for observability, drive platform decisions, identify systemic gaps, and partner with teams to embed observability natively into how Nscale builds and operates.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You'll influence without authority, architect systems, write code, review others' work, and explain tradeoffs clearly. You'll also have opportunities for growth and leadership within the observability team.
Requirements
- 8+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or observability-focused roles
- Deep hands-on experience with a significant subset of: Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Elastic
- Strong engineering fundamentals, proficient in Python, Go, or similar; comfortable owning complex systems end to end
- Experience with Kubernetes at scale; familiarity with GPU infrastructure or HPC environments (Slurm) is a strong plus
- Infrastructure-as-Code is default, not optional (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan participation