Senior Devops Engineer (PST Overlap)

Our client is one of the largest game studios known for its very successful online MOBA and FPS franchises. The team you will join is responsible for the observability platform used by internal engineering teams to send metrics, logs, and traces to Datadog. They build and operate telemetry pipelines, self-service tools, and supporting services that facilitate onboarding, managing, and debugging observability data at scale.

• Minimum of 4 years commercial work experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one backend language, preferably Go.
• Practical experience with observability and monitoring concepts including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and telemetry troubleshooting.
• Experience with Datadog or a comparable observability platform.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based deployments with understanding of telemetry configuration and debugging in Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience building or supporting CI/CD and release automation using tools such as Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Helm.
• Solid debugging and analytical skills in distributed systems, telemetry, or data pipelines.
• Good communication skills and ability to work across teams/time zones.
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with version control tools such as Git.
• General knowledge of test automation.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Vector, VRL, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/OpenMetrics or Prometheus remote write.
• Experience with authentication and secrets systems like Okta OIDC, Vault, or similar.
• Experience leading migrations from legacy telemetry to standardized platform solutions.
• Experience managing observability costs and telemetry cardinality.
• Working knowledge of OpenTelemetry/APM instrumentation.
• Hands-on experience with Public Cloud, preferably AWS.

• Maintain telemetry ingestion and processing pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Build and maintain CI/CD, release, and validation automation for the observability platform.
• Manage monitoring and alerting as code, including Datadog monitors, dashboards, workflows, and Terraform-based configuration.
• Investigate missing data, noisy signals, pipeline regressions, and usage or billing drivers to improve reliability, data quality, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with product, platform, and service teams to onboard new integrations, guide telemetry migrations, and standardize implementation patterns.
• Prepare technical documentation, runbooks, migration guides, and implementation proposals; participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Provide operational support for teams using the observability platform, helping onboard telemetry to Datadog and troubleshoot issues.
• Plan, communicate, and execute safe rollouts for shared observability infrastructure.

Availability to attend afternoon/evening meetings is a requirement due to team location on the US West Coast (LA and Seattle).