Staff Engineer (Engineering Observability)

The team

Our Engineering Observability team runs the brains behind how we understand our systems in real timeowning and evolving the observability platform that powers metrics logs traces dashboards and alerting across the organisation. We turn raw telemetry into clear actionable insights so product and platform teams can spot issues fast debug confidently and continuously improve performance and reliability. Along the way we design and build internal tools opinionated paved roads and best practices for monitoring logging and incident response partnering closely with engineers to make world-class reliability simple scalable and cost-effective.

About the role 

As a Staff Engineer in our Engineering Observability team you will play a critical role in shaping how we understand operate and scale our systems. Youll lead the design and evolution of our observability platform bringing together metrics logs traces dashboards and alerting to deliver fast reliable insights for engineering teams.

This is a high-impact role focused on setting technical direction and raising the bar for engineering excellence. Youll define best practices establish scalable patterns and create paved paths that enable teams to effectively monitor and improve their services. Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation youll help translate complex reliability and telemetry challenges into simple scalable solutionsmaking high-quality observable systems the default.

Responsibilities 

• Drive the execution of SEEKs observability strategy aligning initiatives to customer journeys and measurable business impact
• Define and embed SLI/SLO frameworks to strengthen service reliability and improve visibility into system performance
• Establish best-in-class standards for instrumentation logging tracing and tagging across engineering teams
• Champion telemetry best practices by coaching and enabling teams to build observable systems from the ground up
• Elevate signal quality alerting and incident response to ensure faster detection and resolution of issues
• Partner closely with product and platform teams to integrate observability into the software development lifecycle
• Accelerate adoption through scalable tooling clear playbooks and hands-on technical enablement
• Lead strategic initiatives providing technical leadership and influencing outcomes across multiple teams

Qualifications :

Skills and experience 

• Deep expertise in observability principles including SLIs/SLOs telemetry design and signal quality with the ability to define and implement clear opinionated standards
• Proven experience designing and evolving end-to-end telemetry architectures including pipelines OpenTelemetry and platform integrations
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to drive alignment across teams and build trust with engineers and stakeholders without formal authority
• Passion for elevating engineering practices through reusable patterns frameworks and practical guidance
• Hands-on experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Datadog preferred but not a must)
• Deep experience with OpenTelemetry and building scalable observability pipelines

Additional Information :

At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days and Volunteer Days as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Support for parents with 14 weeks paid primary carers leave and 2 weeks paid leave for partners
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year

At SEEK we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences especially as they relate to gender sexual identity culture faith disability and life stages. If you have the skills curiosity and an adaptable mindset but dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role only those candidates with the eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time