Senior Engineering Manager - Observability

Atoms - Mountain View, CA

Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager - Observability Company: Atoms Location: Mountain View, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:46:35 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Azure, ClickHouse, Grafana, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry About the job Experience: •2+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams, ideally within observability, platform, or infrastructure functions Required Skills: •Lead a team of 6 engineers owning end-to-end observability across the company's infrastructure, including logs, metrics, traces, and event-based monitoring •Own the roadmap for our observability and cost initiative independently, no PM or TPM support, meeting directly with engineering managers across the company to identify pain points and design end-to-end solutions •Drive down time to detect and time to mitigate for production incidents across a system where a single request can traverse 60+ services •Extend observability coverage beyond our original food delivery systems into new physical domains, including autonomous mining transport, as the company's mission expands •Maintain and grow a highly cost-efficient observability stack (currently running at a fraction of comparable third-party tooling costs) •Represent the technical state of your domain in real time, speaking confidently to feasibility, scope, and timelines for any ask without needing to defer to others •Stay hands-on (roughly a third of your time), jumping in to unblock the team when needed, using AI tools to analyze issues and surface insights, without sitting on the critical path for delivery •Grow the careers of the engineers on your team while maintaining strong technical ownership of your domain Compensation: •$185,000 - $254,000 / year •You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!