Observability Engineer

At Sylogic, we're on a mission to revolutionize observability through artificial intelligence.
We are a stealth startup headquartered in Silicon Valley and are funded by Tier 1 VCs.
We are a passionate team solving complex AI challenges from the ground up.
We seek founding peers with high intelligence, intellectual honesty, and personal agency.

Responsibilities

• Participate in customer meetings to understand goals, pain points, and constraints
• Recommend observability migration and instrumentation strategies
• Execute customer projects using our tools and bring back learnings to the development team
• Evangelize best practices for observability that are rooted in experience
• Help our product team infuse best practices into the product — including code contributions

You may be a good fit if you are:

• An SRE or DevOps engineer with 5–10 years of experience using observability to manage incidents and optimize real-world, large-scale applications
• Experienced in configuring and managing observability tools in production
  (OpenTelemetry and DataDog experience is required)
• An expert in observability best practices with a track record of setting and spreading policies across orgs
• A hands-on coder to help develop the product and execute pilots
• A strong advocate with great communication skills to work directly with customers

Strong candidates may also have:

• A working knowledge of AI/ML tools and experience using LLMs for coding or IT admin
• A desire to push the field forward with novel ideas and products
• Experience working with customers (internal or external)
• A team-oriented, collaborative mindset
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
• Lives in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area
• Comfortable working in-office 3+ days per week
• Organized and detail-oriented, with the mindset to learn by doing
• Adaptable and eager to learn new technologies and tools