Senior/Staff Platform Observability Engineer

The role

You will own and improve a unified production-grade observability stack covering metrics, logs, and traces. You will build trusted alerting, define instrumentation standards, and provide technical direction for the engineering organisation.

What you will do

• Own and improve a unified production-grade observability stack covering metrics, logs, and traces
• Build and maintain trusted alerting by tuning alerts against clear SLOs/SLIs
• Define, document, and drive adoption of instrumentation standards using OpenTelemetry
• Enable product teams to diagnose and resolve incidents through dashboards and runbooks
• Run the observability platform as a product, owning its roadmap, reliability, and cost
• Provide technical direction for observability across the engineering organisation

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in Platform Engineering, Observability, or infrastructure roles
• End-to-end ownership of a production observability stack at scale
• Experience with OpenTelemetry adoption, metric and label design, structured logging, and distributed tracing
• Experience with dashboards and alerting using SLOs/SLIs
• Experience treating other engineering teams as customers
• Comfortable with on-call and driving blameless learning from incidents
• Background writing and shipping production software
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python or Go
• Experience owning long-term consequences of architectural and tooling decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Nice to have

• Rancher, Istio, and Kubernetes-native observability patterns
• Bridging hybrid environments across AWS and on-prem platforms such as vSphere/VxRail
• Managing cost and cardinality on large-scale telemetry pipelines
• Defining SLO/SLI frameworks or observability standards adopted across multiple teams
• Running or contributing to incident response and blameless postmortem processes
• Mentoring engineers and raising engineering maturity through technical leadership
• Background in regulated, security-sensitive, or mission-critical domains

Benefits

• Continuous professional development
• Training opportunities

Before you apply

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)

About the company

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space, delivering persistent monitoring capabilities via a large SAR satellite constellation. The company is headquartered in Finland and operates globally.