Senior Cloud Engineer - Observability for Bayer

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer - Observability to join Bayer's innovative team. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will play a critical role in advancing our mission of 'Health for all, Hunger for none' by leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies and observability practices. This is a unique opportunity to work remotely and make a significant impact in the field of digital farming.

What You'll Do

• Be the hands-on Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our observability toolchain, including Datadog, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch.
• Run office hours and produce exemplars to help teams implement effective instrumentation and alerting.
• Triage and resolve observability-related platform requests with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and operationalize Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for key platform components.
• Maintain opinionated 'golden paths' for logging, metrics, tracing, and dashboards to enhance observability.
• Drive reliability reviews and partner with delivery teams to turn recurring incidents into durable fixes.
• Embed observability checks into CI/CD workflows to ensure seamless integration with our development processes.
• Define and report platform observability KPIs to measure and improve our observability practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, operating production workloads.
• Deep practical experience with observability tools such as Datadog and CloudWatch.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; CloudFormation is a plus).
• Experience in programming for automation/tooling using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture, networking, and security fundamentals.

Nice to Have

• Experience productizing observability enablement and creating templates and standards.
• Familiarity with CI/CD at scale, including GitLab pipelines.
• Knowledge of logging/telemetry platforms beyond CloudWatch/Datadog.
• Experience with container platforms like ECS/EKS and AWS data services.
• Relevant AWS certifications.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $130,000 - $180,000 per year.
• Additional compensation may include bonuses or incentive programs.
• Comprehensive health care, vision, dental, and retirement benefits.
• Generous PTO and sick leave policies.
• Opportunity to work remotely and be part of a mission-driven organization.