Senior Engineer

Join Velotio as an Observability Engineer & Shape the Future of Product Engineering

Velotio Technologies, a Great Place to Work® and leading product engineering company, is seeking a passionate and experienced Observability Engineer to join our dynamic team. We partner with innovative startups and enterprises, building cutting-edge products in cloud-native, data engineering, B2B SaaS, IoT, and Machine Learning spaces. If you’re a problem-solver with a knack for transforming ideas into successful products, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Do: Architect, Optimize, and Own Observability

As an Observability Engineer, you’ll be a key player in ensuring the reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our clients’ systems. You will translate business SLAs/SLOs into concrete technical implementations across the full stack, encompassing APM, Logs, Metrics, RUM, Synthetics, and Service Catalogs.

• Design and Implement: Create robust monitors (threshold, anomaly, composite) to proactively identify and address potential issues.
• Champion Best Practices: Enforce best practices for PII hygiene, redaction, and SLO adherence.
• Drive FinOps: Lead a structured, data-driven FinOps initiative focused on significantly reducing Datadog spend across logs, metrics, traces, synthetics, and RUM through targeted strategies. This is a primary KPI for the role.
• Automate Everything: Embrace an “everything as code” approach using Terraform, APIs, and CI/CD for observability configuration.
• Report and Analyze: Generate comprehensive reports on MTTD/MTTR, alert noise, and cost by service/team to drive continuous improvement.

What You’ll Bring: Experience and Expertise

We’re looking for a highly motivated individual with:

• Proven Experience: 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Observability roles.
• Datadog Mastery: 3+ years of hands-on experience with Datadog, covering APM, Logs, Metrics, Dashboards, and SLOs.
• Client-Facing Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead workshops, align stakeholders, and develop compelling proposals.
• Technical Prowess: Strong understanding of Datadog pipelines, tagging, alerting, dashboards, and cost controls.
• Automation Expertise: Proficiency with Terraform (Datadog Provider) or Datadog APIs.
• DevOps Mindset: Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD for observability configuration.
• Incident Management Familiarity: Knowledge of incident management tools like PagerDuty, ServiceNow, or Slack.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Why Velotio? A Culture of Innovation and Growth

At Velotio, you’ll find:

• Empowered Culture: An autonomous and empowered work culture that encourages ownership and rapid growth.
• Flat Hierarchy: A flat hierarchy with fast decision-making and a startup-oriented “get things done” culture.
• Fun and Positive Environment: A strong, fun, and positive environment with regular celebrations of our success.
• Inclusive and Diverse Workplace: We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive, diverse, and authentic environment where everyone feels valued.

Velotio is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.