Platform Engineer Observability Internal Job Opportunity

Purpose of the Role

We are looking for hands-on Platform Engineers to join Team Beacons a newly formed team building and operating the new Observability Platform at WirelessCar.

The mission:

• Build and operate the observability stack

• Act as advocates for observability standards and best practices across the organization

This role contributes directly to enabling reliable scalable and transparent systems by ensuring developers and teams have the tools guidance and paved paths they need.

We welcome candidates across the seniority spectrum. You may be:

• A senior leader who takes initiative sets direction and actively drives progress while working hands-on alongside the team

• Or more junior curious engineer eager to learn deepen your expertise and grow your responsibilities over time

You will join a collaborative environment where shared ownership and practical progress matter.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the architectural design and implementation of the observability stack

• Actively engage with users to understand daily challenges and improve developer experience

• Advocate for observability standards documenting best practices and paved paths

• Design build and maintain the observability stack for ease of use and long-term operational efficiency

• Stay up to date with developments in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem

• Operate the observability stack in production

What Youll Be Part Of

You will help shape a modern scalable observability platform while building internal standards and improving developer experience across the organization.

This is a role for engineers who want to combine platform thinking operational responsibility and community advocacy all while staying hands-on.

We believe that you bring

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Interest in developer advocacy within observability

Familiarity with or interest in OpenTelemetry

Familiarity with or interest in the LGTM stack (Loki Grafana Tempo Mimir)

Experience as a software engineer or strong ability to understand and work with code

Understanding of developers observability needs and effective instrumentation practices

Interest and ability to configure and operate ready-made solutions (focus on configuration and operations rather than heavy development)

Familiarity with Kubernetes and/or ECS

Strong documented problem-solving skills with a hands-on learning-by-doing mindset

• The following will give you an edge:

  • Knowledge of or interest in additional observability tooling

  • Familiarity with or interest in learning Go

  • Experience as an SRE or within an SC team with understanding of operations and support best practices

To join our journey
WirelessCar is always on the move often into uncharted land. We are curious believe in collaboration and are always open to new ideas on how we can make a difference. When you join our journey you will be part of a great crew of highly competent and warm hearted people from all over the world.