Senior Observability Engineer

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth

We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love.

Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success.

Today, we serve over 4.5 million clients, with more than €30 billion in assets under management - a testament to the scale and trust we’ve built in just a few years.

Own and evolve Trading 212’s observability and performance ecosystem across cloud and on-prem Kubernetes environments.

What you'll do

• Design, automate, and optimize observability infrastructure (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, Kafka, etc.) using IaC and GitOps.

• Build Grafana dashboards and implement a smart alerting strategy to surface actionable insights.

• Monitor and analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and drive improvements in reliability and cost-efficiency.

• Collaborate with product, QA, and engineering teams to embed observability best practices.

• Maintain clear documentation and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of data-driven performance.

• Plan and test Multi-AZ/Region DR and resilience scenarios.
  

What you need to have

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Engineering, focusing on observability for large-scale distributed systems.

• Proven experience deploying and maintaining observability tools.

  • Metrics & Monitoring: Strong proficiency with Prometheus and Grafana; experience with AWS CloudWatch.

  • Log Management: Deep knowledge of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Fluentbit).

• Cloud & Containers: Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Automation & IaC: Skilled in Python, Go, or Bash for scripting, and proficient with Terraform (Ansible/Puppet a plus).

• Systems Knowledge: Strong grasp of distributed systems, networking, and Linux/Unix internals.

• Problem-Solving: Analytical, detail-oriented, and methodical in root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
  

Nice to have

• Experience managing and scaling high-throughput Kafka clusters.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Github Actions) for managing infrastructure deployments.

• Familiarity with distributed tracing systems (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry).

• A background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.

We offer

• Challenges that will help you grow and realize your potential really fast

• Opportunity to make a big Impact - you will build innovative services used by millions of investors to build wealth

• Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues with a common goal

• An environment where nothing is set in stone

• Appreciation for your talent and ideas

• Generous remuneration package including annual bonuses

• Excellent social benefits package, including private health insurance and sports card

• 25 days of paid vacation per year

• Delicious treats and a spacious game room

Are you ready to accelerate your career with us? We'd love to hear from you!

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