Senior Observability Engineer (36875-BHAM)

Natick, MA

Job Description

Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

As a Senior Observability Engineer, you wil contribute to definig and driving the strategy, architecture, and implementation of observability capabilities across MathWorks' cloud platform and product engineering teams. This role is ideal for someone who brings deep expertise in cloudnative observability systems, understands how modern distributed systems behave, and can lead cross-functional initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and endtoend visibility for MathWorks' online products and services.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.


Responsibilities


  • Architect and evolve observability systems using cloudnative tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry


  • Build scalable, multitenant observability solutions for Kubernetes clusters running microservices at scale.


  • Implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets-integrating observability into SRE practices.


  • Improve signal quality and coverage by driving instrumentation standards across teams.

  • Develop automation and tooling to enhance telemetry collection, alerting, and correlation.

  • Support application teams in adopting observability patterns, instrumentation frameworks, and dashboards.


  • Collaborate with incident management and SRE teams to improve rootcause analysis and reduce MTTR.


Qualifications


  • Deep expertise in cloud-native observability stacks (Prometheus ecosystem, OpenTelemetry, Grafana suite).


  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and common cloudnative patterns (sidecars, operators, CRDs).


  • Experience applying SRE principles: SLO/SLI design, chaos engineering, error budget management.


  • Experience in designing self-service observability capabilities for platform users.


  • Securityaware approach to telemetry data handling.


  • Knowledge of cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).


Required Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.

The MathWorks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.MathWorks participates in E-Verify. View the E-Verify posters here.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
We request Priority Protected Veteran & Disabled Referrals for all of our locations within the state.

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Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

As a Senior Observability Engineer, you wil contribute to definig and driving the strategy, architecture, and implementation of observability capabilities across MathWorks' cloud platform and product engineering teams. This role is ideal for someone who brings deep expertise in cloudnative observability systems, understands how modern distributed systems behave, and can lead cross-functional initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and endtoend visibility for MathWorks' online products and services.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.


Responsibilities


  • Architect and evolve observability systems using cloudnative tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry


  • Build scalable, multitenant observability solutions for Kubernetes clusters running microservices at scale.


  • Implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets-integrating observability into SRE practices.


  • Improve signal quality and coverage by driving instrumentation standards across teams.

  • Develop automation and tooling to enhance telemetry collection, alerting, and correlation.

  • Support application teams in adopting observability patterns, instrumentation frameworks, and dashboards.


  • Collaborate with incident management and SRE teams to improve rootcause analysis and reduce MTTR.


Qualifications


  • Deep expertise in cloud-native observability stacks (Prometheus ecosystem, OpenTelemetry, Grafana suite).


  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and common cloudnative patterns (sidecars, operators, CRDs).


  • Experience applying SRE principles: SLO/SLI design, chaos engineering, error budget management.


  • Experience in designing self-service observability capabilities for platform users.


  • Securityaware approach to telemetry data handling.


  • Knowledge of cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).


Required Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.

The MathWorks, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.MathWorks participates in E-Verify. View the E-Verify posters here.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
We request Priority Protected Veteran & Disabled Referrals for all of our locations within the state.

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About MathWorks

MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of engineers and scientists, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a block diagram environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain and embedded engineering systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, electronics, financial services, biotech-pharmaceutical, and other industries. MATLAB and Simulink are also fundamental teaching and research tools in the world's universities and learning institutions. Founded in 1984, MathWorks employs more than 5,000 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

Mission: Our goal is to change the world by accelerating the pace of discovery, innovation, development, and learning in engineering and science.

We work to provide the ultimate computing environment for technical computation, visualization, design, simulation, and implementation. We use this environment to provide innovative solutions in a wide range of application areas.


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