Platform Engineer (Observability)

Location: London Area, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Company

A leading quantitative technology firm building highly technical engineering platforms.

What you will do

• Build and evolve large-scale telemetry platforms.
• Improve Kubernetes observability and shape how telemetry is collected and processed.
• Develop scalable telemetry pipelines using OpenTelemetry collectors, SDKs, and exporters.
• Improve platform reliability across a large-scale distributed engineering environment.

Requirements

• Experienced background in observability engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience with OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Experience with Go or Python.

Nice to have

• Experience with Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace.
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, or ArgoCD.
• Background in SRE, platform infrastructure, or building observability tooling at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Engineering-led observability work focused on building the platform rather than only consuming existing monitoring tools.
• Permanent hybrid contract in London Area, United Kingdom.