Contract Observability Engineer
Posted Today by Jobserve
£650 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Real Time Observability Engineer role involves building and maintaining observability components for a global Real Time data platform, focusing on high-performance systems in trading environments. The position requires expertise in telemetry and distributed data systems, with responsibilities including hotspot detection and telemetry pipeline development. The role is contract-based, offering a competitive daily rate and a hybrid working model.
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
Key Skills:
- 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
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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.