Senior Observability Engineer/Engineer III

The role

You will lead the development and scaling of telemetry systems to ensure platform reliability and performance. You will define observability practices and build automated telemetry pipelines using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, delivery, and continuous improvement of observability solutions.
• Build scalable, automated telemetry pipelines using Terraform and modern Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
• Define and evolve best practices for metrics, traces, logs, and events.
• Collaborate with application, platform, security, and compliance teams to integrate observability.
• Drive the definition and adoption of internal standards for service-level indicators, error budgets, and system health.
• Lead adoption of modern AI-assisted development and debugging workflows.
• Identify and resolve cross-functional observability challenges.
• Participate in SRE/Platform on-call rotations.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers across teams.
• Champion a culture of reliability through enablement.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
• Deep specialisation in observability systems and telemetry design.
• Subject-matter expert in observability tools and practices in cloud-native, distributed systems environments.
• Proven track record of delivering high-impact technical projects.
• Deep knowledge of metrics, logs, traces, and events.
• Hands-on experience managing telemetry pipelines with Terraform, CI/CD tooling, and service instrumentation in Kubernetes-based environments.
• Strong understanding of system-level design principles, including service mesh architectures, asynchronous message flows, and distributed systems behaviour.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off, including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service
• Competitive Stakeholder Pension
• Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment
• Company-wide events and outings
• Hybrid Work

About the company

Rent the Runway (RTR) is a circular fashion brand that offers designer apparel and accessories via subscription, one-time rental or ownership. The company has a European Technology Hub in Galway, Ireland.