Senior Software Engineer / SRE (Observability Focus)

LiftedanUpworkCompany

Singapore, , Singapore Remote contract

Posted: April 22, 2026

Job Description

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

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