Observability Platform Engineer

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm looking for a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to help evolve observability as a business-critical platform capability. The role involves designing, building, and operating components of Optiver's shared observability platform across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualisation, alerting, diagnostics, and service health.

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.

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus structure
• 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