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About the Role
Lead observability as a business-critical platform capability across a globally distributed trading environment. Transform observability into a globally consistent, regionally federated platform capability to improve production diagnosis, reduce operational risk, increase platform resilience, improve developer experience, and strengthen confidence in trading systems.
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
- Architecture
- 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
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Technical Leader
- Experienced
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.