Technical Lead, Platform Engineering (Observability)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Technical Lead, Platform Engineering (Observability) based in India.

This is a senior technical leadership opportunity focused on building observability capabilities for complex, large-scale distributed systems.
You will shape the technical direction of a platform that provides engineers with the visibility needed to build reliable, high-performing services.
The role spans metrics, logs, traces, alerting, automation, developer tooling, and AI-assisted approaches to incident management.
You will tackle challenges across hundreds of microservices, improving signal quality while reducing incident detection and mitigation times.
The position combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring, architecture, and cross-functional collaboration.
You will work closely with platform engineering, SRE, security, and product engineering teams to establish scalable reliability practices.
This role is ideal for an experienced platform engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems and making large-scale systems easier to understand and operate.