Observability Platform Engineer

About the role

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. For over 35 years, Optiver has been improving financial markets worldwide, making them more transparent and efficient for all participants. With more than 1,400 employees in offices around the world, we're united in our commitment to improving the market through competitive pricing, execution and thorough risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world, we actively trade on 70+ exchanges, where we're trusted to always provide accurate buy and sell pricing - no matter the market conditions.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to help evolve observability as a business-critical platform capability at Optiver. You will work on the shared platform behind metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, diagnostics, instrumentation and service health.
• In this role, you will:
• Design, build, and operate components of Optiver's shared observability platform across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualisation, alerting, diagnostics, and service health.
• Build software, services, APIs, integrations, libraries, dashboards, automation, and reusable patterns that make observability easier to adopt and more reliable to operate.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and operational quality of high-volume telemetry systems.
• Improve developer and operator experience through self-service workflows, golden paths, documentation, investigation tooling, and practical platform abstractions.
• Work with engineering, infrastructure, trading systems, research, and regional operations teams to understand production debugging needs and improve observability adoption.
• Own the reliability and operational quality of the components you build, including service health, failure modes, monitoring, incident learnings, and continuous improvement.
• Raise the standard for telemetry quality, instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, diagnostic workflows, and service health across Optiver.

Requirements

• You are a strong engineer with experience in production systems, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, observability, or distributed systems. You are comfortable working on systems that need to be reliable, scalable, understandable, and useful to other engineers.
• You will bring:
• Strong engineering experience in SRE, software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, observability, developer tooling, or distributed systems.
• A production mindset, with the ability to reason about failure modes, debugging workflows, service reliability, operational impact, and how systems behave under pressure.
• Technical understanding of modern observability practices across 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 other engineering teams.
• Good judgement in technical trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, complexity, cost, and maintainability.
• A delivery mindset, with the ability to take ambiguous platform problems and turn them into practical, reliable solutions.
• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Vector, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus-

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