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OpenObserve

Open-source unified metrics, logs, traces platform

Customer Success Manager

Full-TimePosted on 10/3/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Remote in USA
RemoteMust overlap core collaboration hours; occasional travel for customer visits, events, and team offsites.

About the job

Requirements
  • Has 4 or more years in a technical role such as software engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, support engineering, or solutions engineering.
  • Has used, run, or supported observability tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, or New Relic.
  • Can work credibly with engineers and is comfortable with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, OpenTelemetry, and log, metric, and trace pipelines; can write SQL, read configuration files, and reproduce problems before escalating them.
  • Understands the distinction between support and customer success and focuses on customer outcomes rather than tickets closed.
  • Can recognize customer frustration, adapt communication to engineers and executives, deliver bad news constructively, and maintain trust.
  • Communicates clearly in writing and in person with hands-on engineers and executives.
  • Can run a portfolio of accounts and multiple evaluations and migrations concurrently without losing track of details.
  • Is comfortable with ambiguity and building processes in an early-stage environment.
  • Must overlap with core collaboration hours in the United States time zones.
Responsibilities
  • Join customer evaluations before contract signing and work with the account executive to define success criteria, establish customer data flows, and ensure pilots demonstrate the required outcomes.
  • Move customers from successful pilots to full-scale production, plan cutovers from existing tools, configure data sources, pipelines, dashboards, and alerts, and keep projects on schedule.
  • Create account success plans tied to customer priorities, track usage and health, and act on early warning signs.
  • Review customer architecture, ingestion, retention, and query performance; recommend changes and demonstrate them in the product.
  • Build trust with daily product users and customer leaders, and run business reviews.
  • Own or partner with sales on renewals, identify expansion opportunities involving new teams, data sources, or use cases, and work with account executives to close them.
  • Coordinate support and engineering during escalations and keep customers informed.
  • Bring actionable patterns from customer accounts to product and engineering.
  • Create proof-of-concept templates, onboarding guides, migration runbooks, and training content.
  • Occasionally travel for customer visits, events, and team offsites.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior customer success or technical account management experience is a plus but is not required.
  • Has commercial sense or is interested in developing it, including understanding renewals and identifying expansion opportunities.
  • Wants to build customer-facing and commercial skills while remaining close to the technology.

About the company

OpenObserve provides a unified observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and frontend monitoring, available as open-source with a free self-hosted tier and paid cloud/enterprise options. It uses a Rust engine with columnar Parquet storage and no index, claiming large cost savings in storage and compute versus Elasticsearch. The platform ingests data from OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Fluent Bit, Vector, and Filebeat, automatically correlates signals across layers (frontend, app, API, database, network, infrastructure, AI/LLM), and adds incident management, SLOs, synthetic monitoring, and AI SRE features. It supports Kubernetes, cloud providers, databases, networks, and AI workloads with deployments on-premises, in the cloud, or air-gapped, aiming to provide scalable, cost-efficient, AI-assisted observability.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$13.6M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • OpenObserve closed a $10 million Series A on April 29, 2026.
  • v1.0.0 launched September 11, 2026, adding AI SRE and LLM observability.
  • Cloud regions in California and Frankfurt reduce latency and strengthen data residency.

What critics are saying

  • CVE-2026-39361 exposed SSRF and cloud credential theft in versions through 0.70.3.
  • OpenObserve still trails Datadog and Grafana on ecosystem breadth and mindshare.
  • Pricing above 50 GB per day pushes larger customers toward cheaper self-managed stacks.

What makes OpenObserve unique

  • Rust-based, S3-native Parquet architecture keeps OpenObserve cheaper than Elasticsearch.
  • v1.0.0 unifies logs, metrics, traces, Synthetics, DBM, and AI Observability.
  • Open source plus BYOB, air-gapped, and enterprise controls fit regulated deployments.

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