Kerja Kerja Dari Rumah, Senior Software Engineer - SRE (Observability Focus) di Lifted, An Upwork Company™ - Maukerja

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer / SRE to support platform reliability, monitoring, and modernization initiatives. This role combines software engineering and site reliability engineering, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes, observability, and cloud infrastructure. You will help improve system reliability, automate operational workflows, and support the organization’s Datadog-based observability environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Support platform reliability, monitoring, and modernization initiatives
• Design, consume, and integrate APIs across internal systems and services
• Work in Kubernetes environments across deployment, operations, and monitoring
• Build and improve observability capabilities across dashboards, alerts, tracing, metrics, and logging
• Monitor containerized and microservices-based architectures
• Integrate observability tooling into AWS environments
• Support CI/CD observability integrations
• Automate monitoring and operational tasks using scripting, with Python preferred
• Help own and operate internal engineering platform capabilities, with extra emphasis on observability platforms
• Drive proactive maintenance efforts and platform improvements focused on reliability, scalability, and performance
• Install and configure Datadog agents and integrations
• Manage API keys and secure configuration practices for observability tooling
• Manage user roles and access controls within observability platforms
• Provide operational and training support related to Datadog

Must-Have Skills

• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, JavaScript (Node.js), or Java
• Hands-on experience with API integrations
• Strong experience working in Kubernetes environments
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
• Ability to configure dashboards, alerts, and APM
• Experience with tracing, metrics, and logging
• Experience monitoring containerized or microservices-based architectures
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience integrating observability tools into cloud environments
• Experience with CI/CD integrations for observability
• Ability to automate monitoring and operational tasks using scripting
• Demonstrated ownership of reliability, scalability, and performance improvements
• Experience installing and configuring observability agents and integrations
• Experience managing secure configurations, API keys, and user access within observability platforms
• Enterprise experience strongly preferred.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Familiarity with Go (Golang)
• Experience with New Relic
• Experience with Dynatrace
• Experience with Elastic
• Experience with Splunk Observability

Required Tools & Platforms

• Kubernetes
• Datadog
• AWS
• Prometheus
• Grafana

Location, Time & Engagement

• Contract role
• Full-time, 40 hours per week
• Remote within APAC
• Must be able to work hours overlapping U.S. Pacific Time
• 100% allocation