We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer / SRE to support platform reliability, monitoring, and modernization initiatives. This role combines software engineering and site reliability engineering, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes, observability, and cloud infrastructure. You will help improve system reliability, automate operational workflows, and support the organization’s Datadog-based observability environment.

Key Responsibilities
- Support platform reliability, monitoring, and modernization initiatives
- Design, consume, and integrate APIs across internal systems and services
- Work in Kubernetes environments across deployment, operations, and monitoring
- Build and improve observability capabilities across dashboards, alerts, tracing, metrics, and logging
- Monitor containerized and microservices-based architectures
- Integrate observability tooling into AWS environments
- Support CI/CD observability integrations
- Automate monitoring and operational tasks using scripting, with Python preferred
- Help own and operate internal engineering platform capabilities, with extra emphasis on observability platforms
- Drive proactive maintenance efforts and platform improvements focused on reliability, scalability, and performance
- Install and configure Datadog agents and integrations
- Manage API keys and secure configuration practices for observability tooling
- Manage user roles and access controls within observability platforms
- Provide operational and training support related to Datadog

Must-Have Skills
- Strong proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, JavaScript (Node.js), or Java
- Hands-on experience with API integrations
- Strong experience working in Kubernetes environments
- Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
- Ability to configure dashboards, alerts, and APM
- Experience with tracing, metrics, and logging
- Experience monitoring containerized or microservices-based architectures
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Experience integrating observability tools into cloud environments
- Experience with CI/CD integrations for observability
- Ability to automate monitoring and operational tasks using scripting
- Demonstrated ownership of reliability, scalability, and performance improvements
- Experience installing and configuring observability agents and integrations
- Experience managing secure configurations, API keys, and user access within observability platforms
- Enterprise experience strongly preferred.

Nice-to-Have Skills
- Familiarity with Go (Golang)
- Experience with New Relic
- Experience with Dynatrace
- Experience with Elastic
- Experience with Splunk Observability

Required Tools & Platforms
- Kubernetes
- Datadog
- AWS
- Prometheus
- Grafana
 

Location, Time & Engagement
- Contract role
- Full-time, 40 hours per week
- Remote within APAC
- Must be able to work hours overlapping U.S. Pacific Time
- 100% allocation