Observability Forward Deployed Engineer

Truist is seeking an experienced engineer with a strong software development background and a passion for observability, automation, and platform engineering. The role designs, develops, and enables enterprise observability capabilities through code, leveraging OpenTelemetry, APIs, automation frameworks, and modern monitoring platforms, partnering with application teams to implement telemetry standards, automate observability onboarding, and build integrations.

What you'll do:

• Develop and maintain observability solutions using modern programming languages and automation frameworks
• Design and implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collectors, and telemetry pipelines
• Build APIs, integrations, and self-service capabilities that simplify monitoring adoption
• Create automation to manage monitoring configurations, maintenance windows, alerting, and platform onboarding
• Partner with application teams to embed observability into the software development lifecycle
• Develop dashboards, analytics, and monitoring-as-code solutions

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering
• Preferred: Python, Java, Go or .NET; OpenTelemetry, tracing, metrics and logging; Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana or Datadog; CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes
• Truist will not sponsor work visas for this position

Full details and application on the official Truist careers page.