Observability Engineer

Observability Engineer A Career with point72’s Technology team As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications. As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business. What you’ll do Architect, build, and run central observability platforms for the firm. Develop telemetry collection, processing, enrichment, and routing pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and events. Implement and maintain open-source telemetry instrumentation standards and deployment patterns. Build scalable ingestion and storage architectures using cloud native technologies. Optimize telemetry cost, performance, retention, and reliability. Participate in incident investigations and drive root-cause analysis for observability platform issues. Develop dashboards, reporting capabilities, and service level monitoring frameworks. What’s REQUIRED Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a closely related field. 4 years of experience as a software engineer. Proficiency in Python or Rust. Working knowledge of GitHub or other CI/CD platforms. Experience deploying observability solutions to Linux and virtualized environments. Familiarity with cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Comfort building infrastructure with Terraform. Demonstrated track record of managing observability platforms such as Datadog and Splunk. Experience with site reliability engineering best practices, including logging, telemetry, and SLA management. Background in data analytics around large data sets. Commitment to the highest ethical standards. We take care of our people We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide: Fully-paid health care benefits Generous parental and family leave policies Volunteer opportunities Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community Mental and physical wellness programs Tuition assistance A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more About point72 Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/. The annual base salary range for this role is $160,000-$250,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.