[Hiring] Senior Cloud Engineer, Observability @Bayer

Role Description

As Bayer Crop Science’s digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. Our shared AWS platform enables hundreds of engineers to ship secure, reliable software faster.

We’re looking for an entrepreneurial builder who treats observability as a product: paved roads for telemetry, opinionated patterns for dashboards/alerts, and a relentless focus on improving signal quality and reducing time-to-detect/time-to-recover. You’ll partner with delivery teams, Security, and Data to standardize how we instrument services, monitor reliability, and learn from production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS experience operating production workloads.
• Deep practical experience with observability in production, including:
  • Datadog and/or CloudWatch (dashboards, monitors/alerts, log search, correlation)
  • Designing actionable alerts (noise reduction, ownership, runbook-first alerts)
  • Defining/using SLIs/SLOs and reliability metrics to drive behavior
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; CloudFormation a plus).
• Strong programming for automation/tooling (Python, Go, or similar).
• Solid grasp of cloud architecture, networking, and security fundamentals.

Requirements

• Experience productizing observability enablement (templates, golden paths, standards, onboarding workflows).
• CI/CD at scale (GitLab pipelines), including integrating reliability/telemetry guardrails into delivery workflows.
• Logging/telemetry platforms beyond CloudWatch/Datadog (e.g., ELK/OpenSearch) and experience managing scale concerns (volume, retention, cardinality).
• Container platforms (ECS/EKS) and common AWS data services (RDS/Aurora, S3/lake patterns, MSK/Kinesis).
• FinOps experience related to observability (tagging, allocation, optimizing telemetry cost).
• Relevant AWS certifications and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Salary of approximately $130k-180k.
• Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant).
• Health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

Company Description

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.

Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.