#24 by score · #24 editorially · Cloud and Infrastructure
Observability Engineer
Tier 2 · Strong and stableAI risk: lowEstimate2 offers on SOLID.Jobs
NEW: an SRE specialisation - Grafana, OpenTelemetry, telemetry at scale; observability costs grow faster than cloud costs
Overall scoreDerived
6.43/ 10
#24 of 63 by score with the default weights. #24 in the editorial ranking.- Salary 30% × 4.81.43
- AI resistance 35% × 8.02.80
- Demand 20% × 6.01.20
- Remote work 10% × 8.00.80
- Low stress 5% × 4.00.20
Salary, k PLN per month
Estimateestimate MID → SENIORmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)
- Range MID → SENIOR
- ≈18–32
- Range midpoint
- ≈25.0
- Junior Derived
- ≈12.5
- Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
- ≈17.0
- Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
- ≈20.5
NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.
Easiest transitions
Estimate2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)
Key certifications
EstimateGrafana/OTel practiceCKA as a plus
Scores 1–10
Estimate- AI resistance8/1010 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
- Demand6/1010 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
- Remote work8/1010 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
- Stress6/1010 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
- Entry barrier7/1010 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
- Prestige7/1010 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula
The market in job ads
From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 30/10/2026Too few offers for this role (2 offers, threshold 10). Below are statistics for the DevOps category (76 offers), labelled as category data, not role data.
76offers in the category · 22 employers
25.2kcategory B2B median
24.7koverall median · 20.2–27.4k
53%remote in the category
Most common stack in DevOps
Most common in this role's 2 offers: Bash, API, Data integration, Git, GitHub, Grafana. This is only indicative.