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As the market leader in Workforce Management Software, we help companies work more intelligently, creatively, and humanely optimizing the balance between profitability and people. \nWe’re a rare company: according to Handelsblatt(10/24), just 309 public companies worldwide achieved over 20% return on sales for ten consecutive years. Only two are based in Germany and ATOSS is one of them. \nWith 19 years of record-breaking growth, over €2 billion market cap, and listings in SDAX and TecDAX, we’re scaling globally and we’re growing. \nIf you’re ready to drive impact in a high-performing B2B SaaS environment, this is your chance to elevate your career.\nThe Person You are \nAt ATOSS, we hire for both character and skill, seeking individuals who embody resilience, a pioneering spirit, and the passion to grow. \nWe value those who: \nThink like entrepreneurs - taking ownership, pushing boundaries, and driving impact. \nChallenge the status quo - bringing fresh ideas and bold execution to the table. \nThrive in change - seeing growth as a lifelong journey, both professionally and personally. \n\nThe Role\nAs a Senior Observability Platform Engineer, you are a key member of our observability team.\nYou design, build, and operate our observability platform (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus/Mimir on Kubernetes) and enable product, platform, and AI teams to monitor and improve the services they own.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role focused on platform reliability, standards, automation, and cross-team collaboration. You will work closely with other platform functions and product lines and help shape our observability strategy and roadmap.\nKey Responsibilities\nProduct ownership & roadmap\nAnalyze and capture requirements across product lines and support stakeholders.\nTranslate requirements into clear priorities, user stories, and acceptance criteria.\nCommunicate progress and upcoming roadmap items to stakeholders through demos, updates, and KPI reporting.\nCollaborate with R&D leads and architecture to align the observability roadmap with broader platform and product goals.\nPlatform engineering & operations\nOperate, scale, and upgrade the central observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus/Mimir on Kubernetes) across multiple environments and cloud providers.\nAutomate routine operations (provisioning, configuration, housekeeping, capacity checks) to reduce manual work and improve reliability.\nEvaluate and adopt modern observability technologies (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, anomaly detection, AI-assisted insights) that fit the overall platform architecture.\nStandards, instrumentation & enablement\nDefine and evolve standards for metrics, logs, traces, events, dashboards, alerts, retention, and labeling.\nProvide reusable templates, reference dashboards, and alert patterns so teams can efficiently build and maintain their own observability content.\nBuild and improve self-service capabilities (data sources, folder structures, onboarding flows, RBAC patterns) so teams can use the platform without heavy manual support.\nEnable and advise teams on instrumentation and observability design.\nReliability, KPIs & incident support\nEnsure the observability platform itself is reliable, performant, and cost-efficient.\nDefine and track KPIs/SLIs for the observability platform (availability, performance, cost, adoption) and continuously improve them.\nSupport incident detection and response by ensuring the right signals (metrics, logs, traces) and views are available to teams.\nCollaborate after major incidents to identify observability gaps and feed improvements back into standards, templates, and the roadmap.\nSupport KPI measurement capabilities across teams (incident detection, response efficiency, observability coverage).\nSecurity, compliance & cost management\nEnsure privacy, compliance, and security requirements are met for observability data (RBAC, tenant isolation, least-privilege access, data minimization).\nDefine guardrails for data volume, cardinality, and retention to keep the platform performant and cost-effective.\nWork with Security, Compliance, and Data Protection to align telemetry practices with regulatory and contractual requirements.\nAI observability\nOperate and evolve AI observability components as part of the central observability platform.\nDefine integration patterns, standards, and example configurations so AI team can instrument their models, prompts, and pipelines in a consistent way.\nEnsure AI observability tooling is reliable, secure, and cost-efficient, and integrates well with the rest of the observability stack.\nEnable AI/R&D teams through guidance and templates, while they remain responsible for defining their own metrics, dashboards, alerts, and evaluations.\nUse of AI to increase efficiency\nApply AI features on top of observability data (where appropriate and technically feasible) to reduce manual work.\nEvaluate and introduce AI-assisted diagnostics as optional helpers for incident and operations teams.\nCollaborate with Security, Compliance, and Data Protection when using AI on observability data, ensuring governance, access control, and data protection requirements are met.\n\nKey Requirements\nBackground as an Observability / SRE / Platform / Infrastructure Engineer in cloud-native environments.\nDeep understanding of metrics, logs, traces, and alerting for distributed systems.\nFamiliarity with Kubernetes, microservices, and modern instrumentation (including OpenTelemetry).\nStrong experience with Prometheus and the Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus/Mimir) in production, at scale; exposure to Langfuse, Clickhouse is a strong plus.\nExperience with observability in at least one major cloud hyper-scalers and their native services\nProven experience designing and rolling out observability solutions used by multiple teams, including standards, templates, and best pracices.\nAbility to work closely with development/engineering teams, understand their needs, and turn them into platform features, standards, and guidance.\nStrong stakeholder communication skills across engineering and operations, with a pragmatic, results-focused mindset.\nExperience operating a multi-tenant observability platform in a SaaS context.\nKnowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements affecting telemetry and logging.\nOur Benefits \nCompetitive Rewards: Including profit-sharing and employee stock program. \nStructured Onboarding & Continuous Leadership Development: Clear career paths onboarding through Expert & Leadership Tracks, plus access to ATOSS Academy. \n Flexible Work Culture: Hybrid options (remote within the EU), 30 days of vacation, and a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion. \nEngaging Team Environment: Seasonal company events, team retreats, and an in-house barista. \nHealth & Wellbeing: Including regular check-ups, corporate wellness programs, and Wellhub membership. \n Stability & Growth: Company listed on SDAX & TecDAX, with 19+ years of record-breaking revenue and a 30%+ EBIT margin. Certified Top Employer© for the 5th year in a row. \nAt ATOSS, great talent knows no limits. 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