Senior Observability Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Maria01 (Helsinki)

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

As a cherry on top, we’ve recently raised $64M in Series A and are ready to reach new heights.

Why DataCrunch

Generous cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
Our operations are profitable, in addition to fast growth.
You’ll be an integral part of the small yet mighty team of 59, challenging the status quo to positively impact the lives of many people.
You’ll work in small teams of experts.
27 nationalities in total, with 6 different ones in the management team.
We foster a community-like atmosphere: we often enjoy each other’s company after work, e.g., munching BBQ made by Ruben, our CEO by day and master chef by night.

Practicalities

Hybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Kamppi office at least 3 days per week. Don’t worry—you won’t be alone or hangry there.
Level of expertise: Senior.
Employment type: Full-time and permanent.

Your responsibilities

Contribute to building and scaling a 360-degree unified observability stack across infrastructure assets (network, storage, cloud, power, servers, VMs, services, security, compliance, customer-facing dashboards, Kubernetes, etc).
Use Grafana, Loki, and ELK stacks to implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
Help surface key insights by creating dashboards, alerts, and visualisations that improve reliability and performance.
Support orchestration of observability data to identify trends, forecast issues, and move from reactive to proactivemonitoring.
Contribute to defining standards for log/metadata organisation and maintaining documentation of observability practices.
Collaborate with internal teams to ensure observability solutions align with business and technical needs.

Your key competencies

Experience with the Grafana stack (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Alloy).
Familiarity with the ELK/Opensearch stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Fluentd, Filebeat, Metricbeat).
Understanding of Prometheus and related tools.
Comfortable working in Linux environments.
Exposure to automation/configuration tools such as Ansible (or similar).
Good written and spoken English communication skills, with an eagerness to grow into a more senior role.

Nice-to-haves

Experience monitoring Kubernetes environments.
Familiarity with the Influx stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB).
Awareness of OpenStack environments.
Interest in SecDevOps/SecOps practices.
Experience with incident management tools (e.g., PagerDuty).

How the process looks like

1. Introductory chat (45 mins) - Meet with our Talent Partner to learn more about DataCrunch and share your career goals.

2. Technical interview (60 mins) - A deeper discussion of your expertise and technical experience with future colleagues.

3. Final interview (60 mins) - Meet with our CEO, CTO, and wider team.

What's next

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