Observability Platform Engineer (SRE Focus)

YouLend is looking for an Observability Platform Engineer (SRE Focus) to build a world-class Observability function, focused on uptime, meaningful alerts, and elegant dashboards. The ideal candidate will have experience with observability tools, cloud-native environments, and Kubernetes services.

Requirements

• Designing and scaling on-call systems that engineers don’t dread being part of.
• Building out Datadog monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and log pipelines for our Kubernetes-based environments.
• Defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets — and helping teams stick to them.
• Creating scorecards and software catalogs so engineers know what’s healthy, what’s broken, and who owns what.
• Training and enabling dev teams to own their own observability, alerts, and incident response.
• Introducing chaos engineering practices (yes, we want to break things... on purpose).
• Driving a culture of reliability, with incident reviews, shared learnings, and transparency.

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Private Medical insurance via Vitality and Dental Insurance with BUPA
• EAP with Health Assured
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
• Free Gym in office building in Holborn
• Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
• Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
• Monthly in office Masseuse
• Team and Company Socials
• Football Power League / Paddle and Yoga Club