Backend Observability Engineer Mid-Senior · Full-time · Remote / Hybrid

You will build telemetry pipelines, centralized logging, and alerting systems to maintain deep operational visibility into client platforms.

As a Backend Observability Engineer at TheWebVale, you will implement monitoring, distributed tracing, and log aggregation across our client applications. You will ensure our software for clinics, coaching networks, and retailers provides clear real-time health telemetry. You will collaborate with backend developers and system administrators during our two-to-three week release cadences. You will establish actionable dashboards and early alerts so issues are caught and resolved before affecting users.

Backend Observability Engineer

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Node.js

Docker

TypeScript

Responsibilities

Your day to day.

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• Instrument backend applications and APIs with OpenTelemetry and logging hooks.
• Configure centralized log collection and search using tools like Grafana Loki or ELK.
• Build operational dashboards displaying response times, error rates, and throughput.
• Set up actionable alert rules routed to Telegram, email, or incident channels.
• Analyze distributed trace waterfalls to isolate slow database queries and micro-delays.
• Create post-mortem templates and assist development teams in root-cause analyses.

Requirements

What we look for.

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• Hold 3–5 years of backend engineering experience with strong observability skills.
• Demonstrate hands‑on familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Loki.
• Show practical proficiency in Node.js, TypeScript, and Linux server environments.
• Understand key operational metrics: latency, error rate, saturation, and traffic.
• Possess strong analytical skills to diagnose complex issues across service boundaries.
• Collaborate constructively with engineers to implement non-intrusive instrumentation.

What you get.

thewebvale.

Remote‑first, with a Bhopal studio for hybrid days

Real client products across many industries

Direct work with the founder and senior team

Learning and tooling support

Your work featured in our public portfolio

How we hire

Three steps, no tricks.

• 1

Intro chat

A short call about what you want to work on and how you like to work.

• 2

Work review

Walk us through projects, code or designs you are proud of.

• 3

Paid task

A small paid task or pairing session, so both sides see the fit.

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