Staff Observability Platform Engineer
Nscale — United States · Remote · Staff+
Role description
Role Overview
As a Staff Observability Platform Engineer, you'll play a critical role in building and evolving Nscale's observability platform, enabling deep visibility into GPU clusters, AI workloads, and the infrastructure that powers them. You'll combine technical leadership with hands-on engineering, partnering across SRE, infrastructure, platform, and AI/ML teams to improve reliability, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
What You Will Do
Design, build, and evolve observability platforms across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and telemetry pipelines. Lead the implementation of scalable observability solutions that support Nscale's growing GPU and AI infrastructure.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This is a role for someone who enjoys solving difficult infrastructure problems, building platforms that scale, and helping engineering teams succeed through better visibility and operational insight.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, observability engineering, or related disciplines
- Strong experience building and operating observability platforms in cloud-native, distributed environments
- Deep hands-on experience with several of the following technologies: Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Elastic, or similar platforms
- Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in Go, Python, or equivalent languages
- Experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based platforms at scale
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, tracing, telemetry pipelines, and modern observability practices
- Experience designing systems with scalability, reliability, performance, and operational simplicity in mind
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent
Benefits
- Equal Opportunities Statement: We strongly encourage applications from people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent individuals, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds