AgentOps Engineer skills & stack
The skills and tools employers expect from a AgentOps Engineer, plus what each level is expected to own.
Core skills
Observability & tracingEval pipelinesCost & latency optimizationCI/CD for promptsIncident response
Typical stack & tools
OpenTelemetryLangSmith / Langfuse / ArizePrometheus / GrafanaKubernetesCI/CDEval frameworks
What you'll actually do
- •Build tracing and observability for tool-using, non-deterministic agents
- •Stand up automated eval pipelines and wire eval gating into CI/CD
- •Own cost and latency budgets, dashboards, and alerting for agent fleets
- •Run incident response and write runbooks for agent failures and regressions
- •Enforce guardrails, rate limits, and rollout/rollback for prompt and model changes
Skills by level
- Mid
- Operates tracing/eval tooling for a product; responds to incidents.
- Senior
- Owns the observability + eval platform and cost/latency posture.
- Staff+
- Defines AgentOps standards and tooling across the org.
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