Platform Observability Engineer
About the job
- Requires 2–5 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role.
- Requires hands-on Terraform experience, including writing modules, managing state, and working through a pull-request-based workflow.
- Requires production experience with observability tooling, including Grafana and Grafana Alerting, plus at least one of Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, or OpenTelemetry Collectors.
- Requires working knowledge of AWS, particularly ECS.
- Requires Python experience for tooling and automation.
- Requires Linux fundamentals.
- Requires clear written English.
- Must be able to work effectively with application teams that are not observability specialists and help them adopt standardized observability practices.
- Onboard application services onto the observability stack, including Grafana, Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics, Tempo for traces, and OpenTelemetry collectors for instrumentation.
- Work with application teams to instrument their services, identify meaningful observability signals, and implement dashboards and alerts that support their operational needs.
- Implement dashboards, alert rules, and collector configurations as code using Terraform and pull requests.
- Migrate alerting from legacy monitoring tools to the standard observability stack, validating parity before retiring existing checks.
- Support and maintain observability configurations across application services.
- Document each service and its observability setup as it is onboarded.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation inside a real application codebase, beyond collector configuration.
- Experience with Mimir or another Prometheus-compatible long-term metrics storage solution.
- Experience with Nagios or comparable legacy monitoring tools, including the ability to understand and migrate existing check definitions.
- Experience migrating alerting from legacy monitoring systems to modern observability platforms.
- Experience with GCP or OCI.
About the company
Exfold provides hiring services for software engineers, offering sourcing, recruiting, technical validation, and contractor staffing in a modular package. Its product works by combining human evaluation with AI-driven tools to identify and thoroughly vet candidates, focusing on time-zone and language affinity to improve fit. Clients can select the specific services they need, and Exfold manages the early stages of recruitment (sourcing and validation) to speed up hiring while ensuring higher-quality candidates reach final interviews. The company differentiates itself through its AI-assisted candidate validation, emphasis on geographic and linguistic alignment, and a flexible RaaS-like model that supports both permanent and contract engineering hires. Its goal is to help businesses expand their engineering teams efficiently by delivering qualified engineers who fit well with their teams.
Company Size
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Exfold posted an Automation Testing Engineer role July 9, 2026, showing active delivery work.
- Fiorella Pizzi joined as Talent Delivery Lead in February 2026, adding operating capacity.
- The company targets remote LATAM hiring, a durable niche for North American engineering teams.
What critics are saying
- Exfold has 14 LinkedIn followers on September 1, 2026; pipeline depth looks thin.
- The July 2026 Ashby role demands Claude AI, signaling low-volume, tool-heavy delivery labor.
- If client concentration hits one or two accounts, revenue evaporates before 2027.
What makes Exfold unique
- Exfold pairs human judgment with AI validation, visible on LinkedIn September 1, 2026.
- Its modular sourcing, recruiting, validation, and contractor staffing model reduces handoff waste.
- LATAM time-zone and language matching targets faster interviews and stronger team fit.
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