Jaeger Analytics / Development Engineer

This is a remote position.

Job: Jaeger Analytics / Development Engineer

Location: Remote / Arlington, TX

Duration: LongTerm

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled Jaeger Analytics / Development Engineer to design, implement, and optimize distributed tracing and observability solutions using Jaeger. The ideal candidate will work closely with DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and application teams to improve system visibility, performance monitoring, root-cause analysis, and telemetry analytics across distributed microservices environments.

This role combines software development, observability engineering, telemetry analytics, and platform integration responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Design, deploy, and maintain distributed tracing infrastructure using Jaeger.

·       Integrate tracing instrumentation into microservices, APIs, and backend systems.

·       Develop custom analytics dashboards and telemetry reporting solutions.

·       Collaborate with engineering teams to improve application observability and performance.

·       Analyze trace data to identify bottlenecks, latency issues, and service dependencies.

·       Configure and optimize telemetry pipelines using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

·       Build automation scripts and CI/CD integrations for monitoring deployments.

·       Implement alerting, monitoring standards, and observability best practices.

·       Support incident troubleshooting and root-cause investigations.

·       Document architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.