Senior Observability Engineer

Warner Bros Discovery Warner Bros Discovery · Media · Warsaw, Masovian, Poland · Technology

Senior Observability Engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining systems for metrics, logs, and traces to ensure performance and reliability of complex infrastructure and applications. This involves data collection, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and collaboration with various teams, using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and manage scalable observability platforms for metrics, logs, and traces
  2. Standardize and automate data ingestion from various sources, using agents and pipelines
  3. Configure intelligent alerts (reducing fatigue) and build effective dashboards to visualize system health
  4. Analyze complex data to diagnose issues, find root causes, and prevent future incidents in distributed systems
  5. Work with application support, operations, and developers to embed observability into the software development lifecycle

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years in an observability engineering
  • Strong understanding of on-premises and cloud infrastructure
  • Proficiency with programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
  • Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Experience with container-based platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.
  • Excellent communication, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking