Observability Engineer

Overview

In this role you will shape the observability platform for a leading quantitative finance research firm. You’ll extend and operate OpenTelemetry at scale, building scalable telemetry pipelines and SDKs to help engineers observe services across cloud-native environments. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to improve incident response and visibility, enabling efficient operation and rapid discovery. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position in a collaborative, ideas-driven culture with a strong focus on scalable, reliable telemetry.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided
• 35 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

Responsibilities

• Extending and maintaining OpenTelemetry, including collectors, SDKs and exporters
• Building scalable telemetry pipelines
• Contributing to Golden Path SDKs and auto-instrumentation
• Ensuring Kubernetes workloads are fully observable and resilient
• Embedding observability standards across platform and application teams
• Improving incident response with better telemetry coverage
• Providing external industry observability experience and input to our long-term roadmap
• Participating on the out of hours on-call rotation

Key requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry
• Proficiency in Kubernetes and cloud-native observability
• DevOps tooling experience across Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm and CI/CD
• Experience with metrics, logs and tracing backends
• Coding in Go, Python or other
• Distributed systems knowledge
• Industry background in Observability or SRE at scale

• OpenTelemetry
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• ArgoCD
• Helm
• CI/CD

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