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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Yesterday Not disclosed
Linux Observability & Monitoring Engineering Jobs
Observability engineers build the systems that tell you what your infrastructure and applications are doing. This track covers building metrics pipelines, log aggregation systems, distributed tracing infrastructure, and alerting platforms, as products in themselves, not tools used incidentally. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and the growing commercial observability ecosystem all run on Linux at their core.
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland May 25 PLN 351k – PLN 474k
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Singapore, Singapore May 22 Not disclosed
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Berlin, Germany May 21 Not disclosed
Warsaw, Poland May 21 PLN 23k – PLN 34k
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San Francisco, California, United States May 21 Not disclosed
Frequently Asked Questions
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Observability engineering focuses on building the platforms that make complex systems understandable: metrics collection and storage, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and alerting. Observability engineers at product companies build these capabilities as the product itself (Datadog, Grafana Labs, Honeycomb), while at other companies they build internal observability platforms.
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OpenTelemetry is the CNCF standard for instrumenting applications to emit telemetry data (traces, metrics, logs) in a vendor-neutral format. It provides SDKs for all major programming languages, a collector agent, and standard semantic conventions. OpenTelemetry adoption is accelerating rapidly and is becoming the universal observability instrumentation layer.
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Linux observability engineers need deep knowledge of the Linux kernel's observability subsystems: perf events, eBPF (for low-overhead kernel tracing), tracepoints, kprobes, and uprobes. Understanding process and network namespaces helps with container monitoring. Storage and query performance knowledge is essential for time-series databases.
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Observability engineers at product companies (Datadog, Grafana, Honeycomb, New Relic) earn $130,000–$190,000 at senior level. Platform engineers building internal observability at large tech companies earn similar ranges. Expertise in OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and eBPF is in high demand.