Technical Lead, Observability - Paris

The whole problem space. This is a lead role that stays hands-on: you will set the direction, design the stack, lead others through building it and work with internal teams on adoption. You'll be responsible for ensuring our teams measure what matters, and for learning our products and services in depth.

Setting one observability strategy that can be applied across teams and technical stacks

Owning the implementation of the systems that manage metrics, logs, traces, alerts and dashboards

Defining SLAs, SLOs and SLIs with our product, research and infrastructure teams

Building end-to-end visibility of system dependencies, providing visualisations for users and context for agents

Automating how we track coverage, reliability, alert quality and the cost of execution

By month 3, every H product has SLAs, SLOs and SLIs defined and measured in code, with compliance reports produced automatically. By month 6, a single complete solution covers metric collection, log processing and tracing. By month 12, every system at H uses the same SDKs and interfaces, whether for alarms, metrics, logs or traces.

You'll work with every team at H, across infrastructure, product, engineering and research. Our VP of Engineering is the hiring manager.

Have set the direction for a substantial piece of engineering work, delivered it and got other teams to adopt it.

Have built production instrumentation and telemetry integrations yourself.

Have defined both product-level and technical-level SLAs, SLOs and SLIs.

Have used SRE measurements such as error budgets, burn rates and MTTA/MTTR/MTTM.

Have built self-managed observability systems, such as OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Alloy, Elasticsearch or Kibana.

Have worked with Kubernetes at scale, enterprise multi-tenancy, inference or asynchronous agent workflows.

You do not need any experience in AI. If you match most of this but not every point, don't hesitate to apply.

Four stages: a 30-minute call with our Talent team, a 60-minute technical assessment, a 60-minute system design interview and a closing 30-minute conversation with the hiring manager.

Our process is tailored to the requirements for this specific role: the system design interview and the technical assessment closely match the work you would be delivering from day one.

The role is hybrid, with three days a week in either our Paris or our London office and occasional travel between the two. We offer a competitive package.