C Engineer (Real-Time Full Tick Re-platform
Job Description
Your new roleYou'll step in as a Senior C++ Engineer, leading the design and rollout of observability across real-time, latency-sensitive platforms. This is a hands-on role where you'll shape how customer experience, system reliability, and operational insight are measured end-to-end. You'll work closely with engineering teams to embed metrics, tracing, logging, profiling, and telemetry into high-performance C++ systems.What you'll need to succeedDeep experience in observability engineering - metrics, tracing, logging, profiling, telemetry pipelines.Strong C++ engineering background in real-time or high-performance environments.Understanding of customer-experience measurement for low-latency systems.Experience building or operating large-scale monitoring platforms.Knowledge of OpenTelemetry, eBPF, GitOps, automation, and CI/CD-integrated observability.Familiarity with cloud-native and Kubernetes architectures.Ability to influence teams, set standards, and drive adoption of best practices.Background in trading, market-making, exchange connectivity, or market data is a strong plus.What you'll get in returnYou'll join a high-impact programme focused on delivering real-time service health, enabling faster issue detection, clearer customer-impact insight, and stronger reliability across mission-critical data platforms. You'll have the autonomy to shape observability strategy, introduce modern tooling, and influence engineering culture.What you need to do nowIf you're a senior engineer who thrives in high-performance, real-time environments and wants to lead observability at scale, get in touch to discuss the role.If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.ukTPBN1_UKTJ