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About the Role

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. This is a platform engineering role for someone who enjoys building reliable systems used by other engineers. You will help turn a capable but heterogeneous observability foundation into a globally consistent, regionally federated platform that is reliable at scale, easy to adopt, and deeply embedded in how Optiver builds and operates production systems.

Responsibilities

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

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 on observability, SRE, infrastructure, platform, production engineering, or developer tooling teams in large-scale distributed systems environments, including telemetry pipelines, streaming systems, time-series data, log platforms, query systems, alerting systems, or production diagnostics tooling.
Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Vector, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus-style systems, or custom telemetry collectors is valued.

Skills

Observability
Platform Engineering
SRE
Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Software Engineering
Developer Tooling
Metrics
Logs
Traces
Events
Alerting
Dashboards
Diagnostics
Instrumentation
Service Health
Telemetry Pipelines
Kafka
Grafana
ELK/OpenSearch
ClickHouse
VictoriaMetrics
InfluxDB
Telegraf
Vector
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Custom Telemetry Collectors

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Performance-based bonus structure
Global profit pool
Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.
We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.