Observability Engineer
Nasdaq · Posted Oct 29
Stock exchange, market technology, index, and financial compliance services
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About the role
Nasdaq's Global Operations organization runs an observability team supporting telemetry, monitoring, and logging across the company's technology landscape. The team owns and evolves the observability platform spanning logs, metrics, traces, APM, RUM, and security use cases, with a strong DevOps and cloud focus. This role builds, scales, and embeds enterprise-grade observability standards, partnering with engineering, SRE, security, and operations teams to improve reliability and incident resolution.
What you will do
- We own and continuously evolve our observability platform across logs, metrics, traces, APM, RUM, monitoring, and security use cases.
- We define and implement reusable observability standards for dashboards, alerting, and logging across engineering and business domains.
- Embed observability into cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring telemetry quality and automation by develop.
- We partner with engineering, SRE, security, and operations teams to improve incident detection, service reliability, and time to resolution!
- We help enable self‑service observability through documentation, dashboards, reporting, and executive‑level transparency!
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Minimum of 12 years working in IT field as system administrator or DevOps field.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Datadog across logs, metrics, APM, dashboards, and monitors.
- Solid understanding of observability principles, including telemetry types, SLOs, distributed tracing, and reliability metrics.
- Proficiency in Python for automation, instrumentation, and integrations.
- Practical experience with AWS and Azure monitoring services and their integration into observability platforms.
- Experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform preferred).
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or I.T.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience operating observability platforms at scale in complex or high‑volume environments.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container‑based observability patterns.
- Familiarity with instrumenting OpenTelemetry.
- Background in SRE, production operations, or performance engineering.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Nasdaq
Nasdaq, Inc. is a leading global technology company serving corporate clients, investment managers, and market operators to navigate and digitize the modern financial ecosystem. It operates multiple market listing venues, indexes, and comprehensive financial crime management and market surveillance solutions.
- Industry
- Financial Exchanges
- Company size
- 9525 employees
- Founded
- 1971-02-08
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Sarah Youngwood
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Brad Peterson
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
John Zecca
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Legal, Risk and Regulatory Officer
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