SEEK
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StaffEngineer(EngineeringObservability)
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“Staff Engineer (Engineering Observability) at SEEK. Skills: observability strategy, SLI/SLO frameworks, telemetry best practices, signal quality, alerting, incident response, observability tooling, OpenTelemetry, telemetry architectures. Drive the execution of SEEK’s observability strategy, aligning initiatives to customer journeys and measurable business impact. Define and embed SLI/SLO frameworks to strengthen service reliability and improve visibility into system performance”
Industry & Context.
translate complex reliability and telemetry challenges into simple, scalable solutions
eligible right to work
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Deep expertise in observability principles, including SLIs/SLOs, telemetry design, and signal quality, with the ability to define and implement clear, opinionated standards, Proven experience designing and evolving end-to-end telemetry architectures, including pipelines, OpenTelemetry, and platform integrations, influencing skills, with the ability to drive alignment across teams and build trust with engineers and stakeholders without formal authority, Hands-on experience with modern observability tooling, Deep experience with OpenTelemetry and building scalable observability pipelines
Nice to Have
Datadog preferred
What You'll Do.
Drive the execution of SEEK’s observability strategy
aligning initiatives to customer journeys and measurable business impact
Define and embed SLI/SLO frameworks to strengthen service reliability and improve visibility into system performance
Establish best-in-class standards for instrumentation
and tagging across engineering teams
Champion telemetry best practices by coaching and enabling teams to build observable systems from the ground up
Elevate signal quality
and incident response to ensure faster detection and resolution of issues
Partner closely with product and platform teams to integrate observability into the software development lifecycle
Accelerate adoption through scalable tooling
and hands-on technical enablement
Lead strategic initiatives
providing technical leadership and influencing outcomes across multiple teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with product and platform teams; Partnering closely with engineers; Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation; drive alignment across teams; build trust with engineers and stakeholders without formal authority
Communication Scope
influencing skills
Process & Methodology
Lead strategic initiatives
Full Job Description
About SEEK SEEK’s portfolio of diverse businesses make a positive impact on a truly global scale. Our purpose is to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organisations succeed. We create world-class technology solutions to connect more people to relevant employment, education, small business and volunteer opportunities. We have a culture of high-performance in our workplaces and celebrate the diversity of our employees who contribute to the success of our organisation. Life at SEEK SEEK’s purpose is at the centre of everything we do. Our SEEK , which defines the way we work, is all about what makes us unique and a little bit different. Passion, Team, Delivery and Future are our principles that drive innovation and creativity. SEEK strives to support employee wellbeing by providing an amazing experience at work which led us to being named AFR BOSS Top 10 Best Places to Work in Technology (2021-2024). We are proud to work in an environment that's inclusive where everyone's unique ideas, experiences and perspectives are valued. Our award-winning head office in Cremorne (just a 4 min walk from Richmond station) provides an exceptional space to collaborate with colleagues. The building provides sweeping views of the city, a games area, sit and stand desks at every workstation, modern end-of-trip facilities and Thursday night drinks which gives our people an opportunity to connect in a social setting. The team Our Engineering Observability team runs the brains behind how we understand our systems in real time—owning and evolving the observability platform that powers metrics, logs, traces, dashboards and alerting across the organisation. We turn raw telemetry into clear, actionable insights so product and platform teams can spot issues fast, debug confidently and continuously improve performance and reliability. Along the way, we design and build internal tools, opinionated “paved roads” and best practices for monitoring, logging and incid
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