Lead Observability Engineer.
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About the organisation.
Our client is a leading global software company with a long-standing track record of building enterprise-grade software products and serving customers across multiple industries worldwide. They operate at significant scale and invest heavily in cloud-native platforms, reliability engineering and modern developer practices. The culture emphasizes engineering excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement.
About the role.
The Lead Observability Engineer will drive the monitoring and observability strategy for a portfolio of applications running across cloud and container platforms. The role focuses heavily on Application Performance Monitoring (APM), including Datadog APM expertise and hands-on instrumentation of services built in Java, .NET and Node.js. The engineer will also extend observability practices more broadly, improving visibility, alerting and reliability across the production estate. This is a hybrid position based in Bengaluru.
What you will do.
- Design, implement and maintain APM instrumentation across services built in Java, .NET and Node.js
- Own Datadog APM configuration, including tracing, service maps, dashboards and performance analysis
- Monitor and improve application performance and reliability for workloads running on AKS and EKS
- Define observability standards, best practices and reusable instrumentation patterns for engineering teams
- Build alerting and SLO/SLI frameworks that reduce noise and accelerate incident detection
- Collaborate with development, SRE and platform teams to resolve performance bottlenecks
- Extend monitoring coverage across logs, metrics and infrastructure beyond APM
- Mentor engineers on observability tooling and instrumentation techniques
What you bring.
- 7.5 to 12 years of overall experience with a strong background in Monitoring and Observability
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Datadog
- Expert-level experience with Datadog APM and strong hands-on APM instrumentation skills
- Experience instrumenting applications built using Java, .NET and Node.js
- Experience monitoring applications on AKS is preferred; EKS experience is also relevant
- Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP or Oracle Cloud is acceptable
- Familiarity with broader monitoring tools and practices across the observability stack
- Datadog certification is an added advantage
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