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Our IT Software Engineer team turns business requirements into technology solutions by designing, coding and testing/debugging applications, as well as documenting procedures for use and constantly seeking quality improvements.\nWhat you’ll achieve:\nYou will be responsible for leading the deployment, optimization, and operational excellence of enterprise observability platforms while driving OpenTelemetry (OTEL) implementation strategies across the organization. You will work closely with architects, platform engineering teams, and business stakeholders to build scalable, resilient observability solutions that improve system performance, reliability, and operational insights.\nJoin us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior Principal on our Software Engineer-IT team.\n You will:\nLead the deployment, lifecycle management, and optimization of enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, MIMIR, and LangSmith, including system upgrades and configuration management. \nDesign and implement telemetry collection strategies, leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTEL) collectors, instrumentation, and pipelines for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.\nOwn platform performance and reliability, including database tuning, observability data modeling, storage optimization, and incident troubleshooting across infrastructure and application layers. \nAutomate operational processes through infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices while implementing monitoring and alerting solutions for platform health.\nMentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive scalability, security, and observability best practices across the enterprise.\n Take the first step towards your dream career\nEvery Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:\nEssential Requirements\n12+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related infrastructure-focused roles.\nStrong hands-on experience administering container orchestration platforms and managing production-scale infrastructure environments.\nDeep expertise in OpenTelemetry (OTEL), including instrumentation, collectors, telemetry pipelines, and observability best practices.\nProven experience with observability platforms, telemetry data modeling, incident response, and monitoring strategies for high-volume environments.\nStrong automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, or infrastructure-as-code technologies, with experience optimizing relational and analytical databases.\nDesirable Requirements\nExperience deploying and operating enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, MIMIR, LangSmith, or similar solutions, including expertise with time-series databases, query optimization, APM, and distributed tracing in microservices environments.\nFamiliarity with LLMOps and LLM application concepts, including tracing, prompt evaluation, dataset management, prompt management, and experience with telemetry-related technologies such as caching systems, message queues, and streaming components.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3287,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Enterprise Storage Systems","Servers & Data Center Hardware","Laptops"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T11:39:39Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":21,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.603,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dell-technologies-senior-principal-observability-engineer-it","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dell-technologies-senior-principal-observability-engineer-it.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T01:40:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2721,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":89},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=89"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdell-technologies-senior-principal-observability-engineer-it"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdell-technologies-senior-principal-observability-engineer-it"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdell-technologies-senior-principal-observability-engineer-it"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dell-technologies-senior-principal-observability-engineer-it\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdell-technologies-senior-principal-observability-engineer-it"}]}