Senior Observability Automation Engineer
q2ebanking · Austin, TX ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Experience
- 6+ years
Why Join Q2?
Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance companies, and fintechs in the U.S. and internationally. Our mission is simple: build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology—and we do that by empowering our people to help create success for our customers.
What Makes Q2 Special?
Being as passionate about our people as we are about our mission. We celebrate our employees in many ways through our year-round Q2 ChangeMakers awards program and global moments of recognition and connection. We invest in the growth and development of our team members through ongoing learning opportunities, internal mobility, and meaningful leadership relationships. We also know that nothing builds trust and collaboration like having fun and giving back together. From company-wide volunteer days to events like our Q2 Homecoming Week—featuring learning, community service, and culture-building experiences—we create opportunities to connect, grow, and make an impact.
Why this role
Most engineering roles hand you a slice. A product owner sets the “what,” a manager sets the “how,” and you build your piece inside someone else’s sprint. This is not that role.
We don’t build the product our customers log into — we build the factory that builds it, and the systems that detect the moment anything starts to break. When our tooling works, the entire organization finds and fixes customer problems faster. When it doesn’t, everyone feels it. That is the leverage of this role, and it is why the work sits at the center of how we run reliability.
You’ll be handed real business problems — often ambiguous, sometimes dropped on us overnight — and trusted to solve them end to end: shadow the people living the problem, prototype, write the architecture, socialize it with senior and executive leaders, then build it and operationalize it so the team can run it. You’ll work full-stack, fly independently, and own what you ship. You’ll build things that matter and get used across the entire company.
If optimizing a single bolt to a tenth of a millimeter for the next four months sounds like a good year, this isn’t your role. If you’d rather build the thing that gets to Mars, keep reading.
What you’ll do
Translate business into solutions — turn ambiguous business needs into architected, detectable, automatable systems — from whiteboard to prototype to production.
Extend our agentic AI platform — develop and grow our proprietary, cloud-hosted AI platform — including locally self-hosted models — that powers observability and automated issue detection across the organization.
Architect at enterprise scale — design 24/7, cross-region-resilient, business-critical tooling used by teams across the company.
Work across the organization — partner with other principal engineers, support, security, and platform teams to map how systems integrate (CRM / case data, endpoint and security telemetry, cloud infrastructure) and design for the real world environment.
Modernize high-risk pathways — re-architect legacy apps and processes into secure, controlled, self-service tooling with the right guardrails built in.
Own it end to end — including light, event-driven on-call for what you build.
Architect and implement enterprise-level observability automation solutions.
Lead design and integration of cross-environment telemetry data.
Develop resilient data collection and analytics pipelines.
Build self-service monitoring frameworks for internal teams.
Oversee CI/CD pipeline integration for observability tooling.
Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, and development teams to drive performance visibility.
Lead performance tuning and incident resolution related to observability systems.
Contribute to security and compliance practices across observability tools.
Support, maintain, and resolve problems for custom features in live production systems, with occasional on call availability.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 6+ years of experience; or equivalent related work experience
Expertise in software development and system integration for observability platforms
Advanced proficiency with monitoring frameworks and analytics tools
Proficient in at least one of the following languages C# (preferred) / Go
Able to consume and develop RESTful API web services
Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps toolchains
Strong understanding of infrastructure as code and event-driven automation
Proven track record designing observability systems in high-growth environments
Ability to lead complex cross-team initiatives and deliver scalable results
Experience with Linux and Windows scripting, including Bash/Perl/Python and PowerShell
Experience with graphing and analytics tools (Grafana/Splunk)
This position requires fluent written and oral communication in English.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Health & Wellness
Hybrid Work Opportunities
Flexible Time Off
Career Development & Mentoring Programs
Health & Wellness Benefits, including competitive health insurance offerings and generous paid parental leave for eligible new parents
Community Volunteering & Company Philanthropy Programs
Employee Peer Recognition Programs – “You Earned it”
Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer.
Our Culture & Commitment:
We’re proud to foster a supportive, inclusive environment where career growth, collaboration, and wellness are prioritized. And our benefits go beyond healthcare—offering resources for physical, mental, and professional well-being. Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer. Q2 employees are encouraged to give back through volunteer work and nonprofit support through our Spark Program (see more). We believe in making an impact—in the industry and in the community.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
Applicants in California or Washington State may not be exempt from federal and state overtime requirements