Observability Platform Engineer, YouLend

• We’re building a world-class Observability function, and we’re looking for someone who lives for uptime, meaningful alerts, and elegant dashboards
• If you’ve ever been on-call, silenced a noisy monitor, or traced a ghost bug across microservices outside core hour - we want to hear from you!
• Have production experience with observability tools (especially Datadog) in cloud-native environments
• Have set up monitoring and alerting across Kubernetes services
• Have built or scaled on-call systems in startups or large-scale environments
• Know how to reduce alert fatigue and love a good MTTR chart
• Have experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)
• Believe that great developer experience includes clear visibility and ownership
• Are curious about — or already practicing — chaos engineering
• Have knowledge of our stack: AWS (EKS, Lambda, etc.), Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Fluent Bit, FireLens, Backstage (or custom)

Desirable

• This isn’t a generic “Platform Engineer” role. You’ll be laser-focused on observability, reliability, and developer empowerment, working closely with teams to make sure we don’t just know when things break - but why
• Designing and scaling on-call systems that engineers don’t dread being part of
• Building out Datadog monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and log pipelines for our Kubernetes-based environments
• Defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets — and helping teams stick to them
• Creating scorecards and software catalogs so engineers know what’s healthy, what’s broken, and who owns what
• Training and enabling dev teams to own their own observability, alerts, and incident response
• Introducing chaos engineering practices (yes, we want to break things… on purpose)
• Driving a culture of reliability, with incident reviews, shared learnings, and transparency