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Senior Observability Platform Engineer

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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will design, build, and operate a shared observability platform covering telemetry collection, storage, querying, visualization, alerting, diagnostics, and service health. You will improve reliability, scalability, developer experience, instrumentation, and production investigation workflows.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering experience in SRE, software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, observability, developer tooling, or distributed systems
  • Production experience with failure modes, debugging workflows, service reliability, and operational impact
  • Technical understanding of logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health
  • Experience designing, building, or operating reliable services, platforms, pipelines, tools, or automation used by engineering teams
  • Ability to make technical trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, complexity, cost, and maintainability
  • Ability to turn ambiguous platform problems into practical solutions
  • Experience with Kafka, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Vector, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus-style systems, or custom telemetry collectors

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate shared observability platform components
  • Build software, services, APIs, integrations, libraries, dashboards, automation, and reusable patterns
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and operational quality of telemetry systems
  • Improve developer and operator experience through self-service workflows, documentation, investigation tooling, and platform abstractions
  • Work with engineering, infrastructure, trading systems, research, and regional operations teams
  • Own the reliability and operational quality of platform components
  • Improve telemetry quality, instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, diagnostic workflows, and service health

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonus
  • Daily breakfast, lunch, and snacks
  • Gym membership
  • Weekly in-house chair massages
  • Regular social events
  • Company trip every two years
  • Relocation package
  • Visa sponsorship
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