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Engineers who build and tune the monitoring itself: Prometheus and PromQL, Grafana dashboards and alert rules, Loki or ELK, OpenTelemetry tracing, SLOs and error budgets. Typical titles: Observability Engineer, Monitoring Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (Observability).\n\nWhat you'll do\nWork through incident, debugging and infrastructure-change scenarios live with a researcher: reading dashboards and logs, writing PromQL and LogQL, fixing Helm and Kubernetes configuration, rolling back bad deploys and writing post-mortems.\n\nExplain your reasoning as you work, including the fixes you considered and rejected.\n\nReview scenarios we have drafted and say plainly what is unrealistic, too easy or underspecified.\n\nHelp write the acceptance criteria for each scenario, including the tempting wrong moves an engineer under pressure might make.\n\nWrite short notes after each session on how you approached the problem and what you verified.\n\nWork in reviewer feedback within agreed turnaround times, and flag guideline gaps or edge cases you run into.\n\nWho we're looking forRequired\n3+ years running production systems in at least one of the areas above, including time on an on-call rotation within the last two years. You did the work yourself; managing the team is not enough.\n\nHands-on with Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana (or Datadog or New Relic), a log stack such as Loki, ELK or Splunk, infrastructure as code such as Terraform and Helm, and a CI/CD system.\n\nComfortable in Python, Go or Bash and at reading unfamiliar codebases.\n\nAble to explain your reasoning out loud while you work, in clear professional English.\n\nReliable availability for scheduled live sessions and the habit of showing the evidence behind every conclusion.\n\nNice to have\nExperience writing runbooks, post-mortems, SLO definitions or incident training material.\n\nFamiliarity with how AI coding agents fail on operations work.\n\nOur standards\nAll solutions, write-ups and reviews are your own work. LLM-generated code or text is not permitted.\n\nScenarios and solutions must be original. 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