Site Reliability Engineer Data and Observability Platform

Pulsar is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer Data and Observability Platform to operate production systems and build observability, streaming data pipelines, and OLAP infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end platform observability, build actionable dashboards and alerts, and operate production systems. You will ship changes through CI/CD and GitOps, manage Kubernetes streaming workloads and AWS infrastructure, and participate in on-call. You will also build near-real-time telemetry pipelines, implement data-quality checks, optimize OLAP tables, and write SQL for dashboards and analytics.

• Own end-to-end platform observability
• Build actionable Grafana dashboards and alerts
• Diagnose production failures, recover missed data, and prevent recurrence
• Ship changes through CI/CD and GitOps
• Operate streaming workloads on Kubernetes EKS
• Provision AWS resources using Terraform
• Participate in on-call for the data and observability platform
• Build and maintain near-real-time telemetry and log pipelines
• Design data-quality checks and route bad records for investigation
• Design and optimize OLAP tables
• Write and tune SQL for dashboards and analytics

• University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
• At least 4–7 years of relevant work experience
• Production observability and monitoring experience
• CI/CD delivery experience
• Production experience with a distributed stream-processing engine
• Experience designing OLAP or columnar database tables and tuning queries
• Kubernetes working knowledge
• Strong programming skills in Python, Scala, Java, or Rust
• Fluent analytical SQL
• Ability to troubleshoot production systems methodically