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About the Role

We are looking for a Head of Observability Platform to lead observability as a business-critical platform capability across our globally distributed trading environment. This role involves owning the strategy, architecture, operating model, adoption approach, and roadmap for Optiver’s shared observability platform, enabling engineers, operators, and automated systems to collect, query, understand, and act on critical data across the global environment. It is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on transforming observability into a globally consistent, resilient, and developer-friendly platform capability.

Responsibilities

Set the global strategy, architecture, operating model, and roadmap for Optiver’s observability platform.
Lead and develop a globally distributed team of engineers, shaping team mandate, ways of working, and capability.
Define what “good observability” means at Optiver, including expectations for telemetry quality, instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, service health, and diagnostic workflows.
Guide technical direction across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualization, alerting, eventing, automation, and platform reliability.
Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of the platform as adoption and telemetry volumes grow.
Improve developer and operator experience through self-service workflows, golden paths, documentation, reusable patterns, APIs, dashboards, and investigation tooling.
Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption.

Requirements

Proven experience leading engineering, SRE, platform, infrastructure, or observability teams in a complex technical environment.
Experience owning or shaping a platform capability, including strategy, roadmap, architecture, operating model, adoption, governance, and measurable outcomes.
Deep understanding of modern observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health.
Experience designing or leading large-scale observability platforms, including ingest pipelines, storage backends, query systems, retention models, visualization, alerting, resilience, and scale-related trade-offs.
Strong technical judgement, people leadership, and delivery discipline.
Ability to influence without direct control across engineering teams.
A pragmatic approach to platform adoption, balancing global standardisation with regional autonomy, local production needs, and existing systems.

Skills

Observability
Platform Strategy
Architectural Judgement
People Leadership
Delivery Discipline
Logs
Metrics
Traces
Events
Alerting
Dashboards
Telemetry Pipelines
Diagnostics
Instrumentation Quality
Service Health
Ingest Pipelines
Storage Backends
Query Systems
Retention Models
Visualization
Resilience
Scale-related trade-offs

Location

Globally distributed

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Technical leadership
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 global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai.
Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management.
By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.
We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.
Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products.
Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

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.