At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain observability components for our Real-Time platform.
- Company: Global investment banking organisation with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, hybrid working, and dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Six-month rolling contract with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Join a fast-paced team and make an impact in high-frequency market data.
- Qualifications: Experience in software engineering and proficiency in systems-level languages.
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:
- Hands‑on software engineering experience building observability or data‑pipeline applications, including metrics aggregation, distributed tracing, or real‑time streaming
- Proficiency in at least one systems‑level language such as C++, Go, or Rust, and one scripting or application language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript
- Experience with OpenTelemetry SDKs, collectors, and schema conventions for instrumentation and telemetry export
- Familiarity with SLI/SLO concepts, especially for latency‑sensitive or market data systems
- Experience building and operating custom synthetic monitoring solutions at scale, including lightweight agents distributed across geographically diverse sites
- Experience working in cloud‑native, containerised, and Kubernetes environments, including deploying and operating services at scale
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain application components that aggregate, correlate, and present observability data from individual services into unified, end‑to‑end views of our Real‑Time platform
- Implement customer‑centric aggregation and hotspot detection algorithms that reflect timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and stability of market data across our Real‑Time estate
- Develop and extend telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform, and route metrics, traces, and logs from distributed services into a coherent observability layer
- Design and build custom synthetic monitoring agents deployed across hundreds of global sites to continuously measure customer experience of Real‑Time data from the edge
- Work with squads to integrate observability instrumentation into applications throughout Dev, Test, PPE, and Prod environments
Technologies:
- Cloud
- Java
- Kubernetes
- OpenTelemetry
- Python
- Rust
- TypeScript
- DevOps
We are a global investment banking organization seeking an experienced Observability and Performance Engineer to work within low‑latency, high‑frequency environments on a market data project. This is a six‑month rolling contract based in London with a hybrid working arrangement and a day rate of £1000 inside IR35. We operate in a fast‑paced, enterprise environment focused on Real‑Time platform performance and observability at scale.
Principal Observability & Performance Engineer employer: Sivara GmbH
As a global investment banking organisation, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that prioritises innovation and collaboration. Our London-based team enjoys a hybrid working arrangement, competitive day rates, and ample opportunities for professional growth in cutting-edge technologies, making it an ideal environment for those looking to make a significant impact in the field of observability and performance engineering.
