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JOB TITLE
Observability Engineer
A CAREER WITH POINT72'S TECHNOLOGY TEAM
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.
As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design observability capabilities that give engineering teams clear insight into application health, platform performance, and issues affecting users
- Build scalable collection pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across cloud-based and on-premises environments
- Develop actionable alerting standards that reduce noise, shorten incident response, and highlight the most important signals
- Partner with application and infrastructure teams to define service health indicators and improve operational readiness before production launches
- Automate monitoring configuration, dashboard deployment, and reliability checks to support consistent observability across the technology environment
- Analyze production incidents to identify telemetry gaps and improve detection, diagnosis, and recovery
- Create dashboards and reporting views that help teams understand trends, capacity risks, and reliability outcomes
- Establish practical observability patterns, documentation, and self-service guidance for engineers across the organization
- Contribute to a global technology team that improves the resilience of systems supporting the firm’s investment business
WHAT’S REQUIRED
- 5-17 years of experience in observability, site reliability, systems engineering, production engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles
- Experience using an administrator such as Datadog and Python for programing
- Practical experience designing and operating telemetry solutions for metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-based environments, containerized workloads, and modern application architectures
- Proficiency with at least one scripting or programming language for automation, tooling, and operational workflows
- Experience deploying observability patterns across production environments with high availability and performance expectations
- Experience troubleshooting production issues across applications, networks, operating systems, and infrastructure services
- Working knowledge of incident management practices, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of operational processes
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and collaborate across global engineering teams
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
WE TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
- Health care benefits
- Maternity, Adoption & related leave policies
- Generous paternity and family care leave policies
- Employee Assistance Program & Mental wellness programs
- Transportation support
- Tuition assistance
ABOUT POINT72
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.
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