Observability Engineer – Remote Contract

About the role

We are partnering with a leading foundational AI lab to find experienced observability engineers who will train and evaluate AI‑generated documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. The role focuses on creating, reviewing and refining blameless postmortems, root‑cause analyses, on‑call runbooks, severity and escalation write‑ups, SLO and error‑budget reports, remediation action‑item trackers and reliability review decks.

Key responsibilities

• Run or review production incidents and produce detailed postmortems and root‑cause analyses.
• Develop and maintain on‑call runbooks, severity escalation documentation, and remediation trackers.
• Generate and assess AI‑generated documents, spreadsheets and slide decks for reliability reporting.
• Produce SLO, error‑budget reports and reliability review decks for core workflows.

Required profile

• 4+ years experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Incident Commander or production/on‑call engineering lead.
• Direct ownership of writing or reviewing blameless postmortems and root‑cause analyses.
• Expert‑level craftsmanship in documents, spreadsheets and slide decks with strong written communication.

Required skills

• remediation action-item trackers
• root‑cause analyses
• on‑call runbooks
• severity and escalation write‑ups
• document spreadsheet and slide craftsmanship
• blameless postmortems
• reliability review decks
• SLO and error‑budget reports

What we offer

• Compensation of $80 per hour.
• Flexible commitment of 5–20 hours per week (or more).
• Fully remote work on your own schedule.
• Start date ASAP.