Observability Engineer

457 US job postings, 179 of them in the 30 days to 2026-10-28. Data as of 2026-10-29.

Skills employers ask for

Observability — 5% of postings
Python — 4% of postings
Datadog — 3% of postings
Grafana — 3% of postings
OpenTelemetry — 3% of postings
Prometheus — 3% of postings
Splunk — 3% of postings
New Relic — 3% of postings
Java — 3% of postings
Distributed Tracing — 3% of postings

Where the jobs are

New York — 20%
California — 19%
Texas — 18%
Illinois — 14%
Washington — 14%
Massachusetts — 12%

Advertised pay

Annual pay: median $126K/yr, middle half $123K/yr to $130K/yr (12 postings)

Remote, hybrid or onsite

Of 448 postings that state it: 40% remote, 32% hybrid.

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