Lead Observability Engineer

The Lead Observability Engineer will drive the monitoring and observability strategy for a portfolio of applications running across cloud and container platforms. The role focuses heavily on Application Performance Monitoring (APM), including Datadog APM expertise and hands-on instrumentation of services built in Java, .NET and Node.js. The engineer will also extend observability practices more broadly, improving visibility, alerting and reliability across the production estate. This is a hybrid position based in Bengaluru.

Our client is a leading global software company with a long-standing track record of building enterprise-grade software products and serving customers across multiple industries worldwide. They operate at significant scale and invest heavily in cloud-native platforms, reliability engineering and modern developer practices. The culture emphasizes engineering excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain APM instrumentation across services built in Java, .NET and Node.js
• Own Datadog APM configuration, including tracing, service maps, dashboards and performance analysis
• Monitor and improve application performance and reliability for workloads running on AKS and EKS
• Define observability standards, best practices and reusable instrumentation patterns for engineering teams
• Build alerting and SLO/SLI frameworks that reduce noise and accelerate incident detection
• Collaborate with development, SRE and platform teams to resolve performance bottlenecks
• Extend monitoring coverage across logs, metrics and infrastructure beyond APM
• Mentor engineers on observability tooling and instrumentation techniques

Requirements

• 7.5 to 12 years of overall experience with a strong background in Monitoring and Observability
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Datadog
• Expert-level experience with Datadog APM and strong hands-on APM instrumentation skills
• Experience instrumenting applications built using Java, .NET and Node.js
• Experience monitoring applications on AKS is preferred; EKS experience is also relevant
• Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP or Oracle Cloud is acceptable
• Familiarity with broader monitoring tools and practices across the observability stack
• Datadog certification is an added advantage

Skills

Monitoring and Observability, Datadog, Datadog APM, APM instrumentation, Java, .NET, Node.js, AKS, EKS, Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Datadog certification