Contract Software Engineer (Observability & Telemetry)

Real Time Kernel Observability Engineer | Contract | Inside IR35 | Hybrid London

We're working with a global Real Time data platform operating in ultra-low latency, high-throughput environments across distributed systems.

This role sits in a specialist engineering team building Kernel-level observability and telemetry infrastructure used to monitor and understand system behaviour in Real Time.

What you'll be doing

• Build Kernel-level observability and instrumentation systems for distributed Real Time infrastructure
• Develop telemetry pipelines using eBPF-based tooling (metrics, logs, traces at Kernel level)
• Design and implement system-wide visibility across latency-critical services
• Work with hotspot detection, performance profiling, and system behaviour analysis
• Extend low-level instrumentation where required (Linux Kernel tracing, high-efficiency data capture)
• Contribute to observability architecture across high-scale distributed systems

We are looking for engineers with strong experience in:

• eBPF/BPF/bpftrace/BCC
• Kprobes/uprobes/Kernel tracing
• Cilium/Grafana Beyla/XDP
• Linux Kernel instrumentation or performance engineering
• Low-latency or high-performance distributed systems
• Strong systems programming background (C++, Go or Rust preferred)
• Python/Java for higher-level services
• Kubernetes/cloud-native infrastructure
• Observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces, SLI/SLOs)

Contract details

• Hybrid working (London)
• Inside IR35
• Long-term contract
• Global Real Time data platform environment

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