Software Engineer - Observability Platform

Job Description

Join us in building an outstanding observability platform and help us continue to encourage and develop the builders of tomorrow.

We seek an innovative software engineer to join our outstanding Observability Platform (OP) team of highly skilled engineers – Brave engineers with a mission to improve developer efficiency in our digital organization, so we can reach even more kids with a digital experience – and have an upbeat experience ourselves along the path!

Core Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our new Observability Platform team. Who will be instrumental in developing and maintaining a unified observability platform that integrates technologies like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, the ELK stack, Zabbix, and PagerDuty.

This role will collaborate with product teams to understand their observability needs and provide solutions that improve system visibility and performance. Also, develop and maintain monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our infrastructure and applications.

• Automate observability processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Fix and resolve issues related to observability tools and systems.
• Know the latest with industry trends and new technologies in observability and recommend improvements to our platform.
• Contribute to the development of standard processes and guidelines for observability across the organization.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The position is part of the larger Developer Experience and Cloud Foundation area, providing product teams in the LEGO Group with foundational capabilities for developing, deploying, and operating IT solutions. As an engineer in OP, you will be part of a team that builds the next generation of our "Developer experience and Productivity platform".

In OP we strive to find the balance between reducing cognitive load with architecture guidelines and platforms and on the other side empowering developers to be in control of their code and architectures.

The team is based in the new LEGO® Digital Office in Copenhagen, offering an exciting, inspiring, and flexible work environment – and a little fun play as well!

Do you have what it takes?

Preferably applicants for this role have some years of experience in crafting and running observability platforms using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK, Zabbix, PagerDuty or similar technologies. Preferred candidates hold a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or have equivalent working experience.

• Proficient understanding of monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting standard methodologies.
• Good understanding of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) standard methodologies.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, or similar languages).
• Understanding of platform security is a plus.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus.

Superb communication skills in written and spoken English, as well as ability to work closely and effectively in a team-oriented environment.

Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodations or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

Relocation support is not offered for this role.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.