Observability Engineer

Overview

Build, scale and embed enterprise-grade observability across Nasdaq's technology landscape as an Observability Engineer in the Global Operations technology center in Bangalore, India, working also with Nasdaq teams in other countries.

What you'll do

• Own and continuously evolve the observability platform across logs, metrics, traces, APM, RUM, monitoring and security use cases.
• Define and implement reusable observability standards for dashboards, alerting and logging across engineering and business domains.
• Embed observability into cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring telemetry quality and automation.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, security and operations teams to improve incident detection, service reliability and time to resolution.
• Enable self-service observability through documentation, dashboards, reporting and executive-level transparency.

What you'll need

• Minimum of 12 years working in the IT field as a system administrator or in DevOps.
• Strong hands-on experience with Datadog across logs, metrics, APM, dashboards and monitors.
• Solid understanding of observability principles, including telemetry types, SLOs, distributed tracing and reliability metrics.
• Proficiency in Python for automation, instrumentation and integrations.
• Practical experience with AWS and Azure monitoring services and their integration into observability platforms.
• Experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or I.T.

Nice to have

• Experience operating observability platforms at scale in complex or high-volume environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container-based observability patterns.
• Familiarity with instrumenting OpenTelemetry.
• Background in SRE, production operations or performance engineering.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Applications must be submitted in English.