# Senior Software Engineer, Observability

**Company:** [Okta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/okta)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Washington, DC
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $147k – $202k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Azure, Datadog, Terraform, Node.js, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Senior engineer on the Auth0 Platform Observability team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable observability infrastructure (metrics, logs, traces) using Datadog, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Champion observability best practices, acting as an educator who can effectively correct anti-patterns and teach other engineering teams how to build robust, standardized instrumentation.
- Be an expert in running services in production environments.
- Contribute to the process of designing services for high growth and high availability.
- Provision, configure, and monitor cloud-native infrastructure and services.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
- Troubleshoot performance issues and operational issues.
- Automate operational tasks and improve scripts.
- Assist with and provide feedback for performance testing and automation.
- Actively participate in major incident response to diagnose root causes and identify critical gaps in current telemetry tooling.
- Act as a technical leader, driving cross-team initiatives to improve instrumentation and observability standards across the broader engineering organization.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Expertise in the Datadog ecosystem (Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Error Tracking), including establishing alerting standards, implementing tagging taxonomies, and managing Datadog configurations via Terraform.
- Strong coding skills in Node.js or Golang.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- A data-driven approach to debugging complex, cross-service performance bottlenecks.
- Deep understanding of microservice architecture and best practices.
- Experience in coaching and mentoring more junior engineers.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and collaborate seamlessly with multiple engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Vector, or similar frameworks for instrumenting applications.

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