Senior Observability Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (Observability)

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (Relocation support provided) 🇦🇪

Salary: 30,000 – 40,000 AED per month

Join a fast-growing cybersecurity scale-up in Abu Dhabi as a Senior Software Engineer (Observability) and own the observability layer behind a global identity platform.

You’ll build and run the telemetry backbone (metrics, logs, traces) across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped Kubernetes environments. The goal is a consistent, vendor-neutral setup that works everywhere without per-environment tweaks.

You’ll make sure every service is observable from day one, with solid instrumentation, correlation, and alerting. You’ll also set the standards and defaults that make observability a built-in part of the platform, not an afterthought.

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of JVM-based production engineering experience (Java 17/21, Spring Boot)
• Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry in Java, including SDK/agent instrumentation, Collector pipelines, OTLP, and distributed context propagation
• Experience building or operating vendor-neutral observability systems across cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments
• Strong understanding of observability as a product: defining SLIs/SLOs, working backwards from SLAs, and designing actionable alerting and error budgets
• Experience with New Relic (or similar tools), including instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and OTEL-based integrations
• Proven track record building shared observability frameworks or instrumentation libraries used across multiple teams
• Strong Kubernetes expertise with portable observability across AWS, GCP, Azure, and bare metal
• End-to-end ownership of systems including production support and on-call responsibility
• Ability to turn telemetry insights into engineering standards, defaults, and reusable platform components

What’s in it for you?

• Ownership of key platform decisions, driving the growth and scale of critical products
• Opportunity to shape complex application and infrastructure at scale
• High autonomy within a technically strong, collaborative engineering culture
• Benefits include Visa & health insurance (for you and your family), and annual flight ticket
• Relocation package: flights and one month accommodation on arrival (for you and your family)

Why Relocate to the UAE?

Abu Dhabi offers an exceptional lifestyle with tax-free income, year-round sun, and a high standard of living. Ranked as the second safest country in the world, making it an ideal location for individuals and families seeking long-term stability. The UAE has become a major hub for innovation, driven by significant investment attracting some of the most innovative start-ups and scale-ups from across the globe.

If this sounds like you, please apply with your latest CV and we will be in touch to discuss the role further!