Contract Observability Engineer

Real Time Observability Engineer | Contract | £650 INSIDE IR35 | Hybrid/Global Platform | High Performance Systems

We are working with a global Real Time data platform operating across multiple markets and high-throughput trading environments.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain application-layer observability components that aggregate and correlate telemetry across distributed services into unified system-wide views
• Design and implement logic for hotspot detection and data quality measurement across latency, completeness, accuracy, and stability
• Develop telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Real Time distributed systems
• Extend low-level instrumentation approaches where required, including Kernel-level or high-efficiency data capture techniques

What you bring

• Strong software engineering background building observability, telemetry, or distributed data systems
• Experience with Real Time or streaming data environments
• Proficiency in systems-level programming (C++, Go, or Rust) alongside a higher-level language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript
• Exposure to OpenTelemetry or similar observability frameworks
• Understanding of SLI and SLO modelling in low-latency or high-availability environments
• Experience building or operating synthetic monitoring at scale is highly desirable
• Familiarity with containerised environments and cloud-native architectures, ideally Kubernetes-based platforms
• Strong experience with API-driven development and CI/CD or GitOps workflows
• Ability to simplify complex distributed system behaviour into clear, usable insight for engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

Contract details

• Long term
• Up to £650 per day inside IR35
• Hybrid working model in London

For more information please apply now or contact job poster directly for info.