Observability Tech Lead

Trade Republic is seeking an Observability Tech Lead to build and evolve the observability platform, drive cross-team initiatives, and align observability strategy with broader engineering reliability and business goals.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in observability, platform engineering, or a related SRE/infrastructure discipline.
• Deep hands-on expertise with the observability stack — Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, or equivalent at scale.
• Proven ability to design and operate high-throughput telemetry pipelines across distributed, multi-cloud environments.
• Strong command of SLO-based reliability practices — error budgets, burn-rate alerting, and incident response tooling.
• Cloud-native in your DNA: hands-on with Kubernetes, Terraform, and running production workloads on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• A track record of turning observability best practices into opinionated standards that engineering teams actually adopt.
• Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives end-to-end, from ambiguous problem to shipped solution.
• Ability to contribute to architectural decisions and clearly communicate trade-offs to both engineers and leadership.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Relocation Assistance