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About the Role

The Observability Engineering Team manages access to telemetry backends, ensuring engineers can effectively produce and consume telemetry for their services. As an Observability Engineer, you will help make observability seamless for developers and platform teams by building data ingestion and routing pipelines, and visualizing that data. You will leverage deep experience across observability stacks and understand the challenges of handling large volumes of telemetry data at scale. Knowledge of running OpenTelemetry at scale and creating SDKs is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Architecting, scaling and maintaining a broad range of observability backends
Extending and maintaining OpenTelemetry, including collectors and SDKs
Building scalable telemetry pipelines
Contributing to Golden Path SDKs and auto-instrumentation
Ensuring Kubernetes workloads are fully observable and resilient
Embedding observability standards across platform and application teams
Improving incident response with better telemetry coverage
Providing external industry observability experience and input to our long-term roadmap

Requirements

Operating/onboarding SaaS Observability platforms at scale, such as DataDog, NewRelic, Dynatrace etc.
Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry
Familiarity with public cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
Proficiency in Kubernetes and DevOps tooling (e.g. Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Jenkins)
Experience with metrics, logs and tracing backends
Scripting in Go, Python, or similar
Industry background in Observability or SRE
Profiling (eBPF, Pixie, Parca), synthetic monitoring, AI-observability tools and Kafka are desirable but not essential

Skills

OpenTelemetry
Kubernetes
DevOps tooling
Terraform
ArgoCD
Helm
Jenkins
Go
Python
Observability
SRE
Profiling
Synthetic monitoring
AI-observability tools
Kafka

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

Benefits

Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business)
Dedicated barista bar
35 days’ annual leave
9% company pension contributions
Informal dress code
Excellent work/life balance
Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
Cycle-to-work scheme
Monthly company events

About the Company

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.
From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution - because the best ideas take time to evolve.
Together we’re building a world-class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.

Equal Opportunity

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment.
We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.
We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section