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Senior Observability Platform Engineer

SeniorFull-timeHybridSydney NSW, AustraliaPosted 1 week agoVerified 1 week ago
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About the job

The Senior Observability Platform Engineer at Optiver plays a crucial role in evolving observability into a business-critical platform capability. This job focuses on designing, building, and operating components that enhance the reliability and usability of observability systems across various teams. Collaboration is key, as the team works together to improve production systems and ensure high-quality telemetry for all engineers.

You'll be responsible for

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Designing and building components

Create components of Optiver’s shared observability platform across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualisation, alerting, diagnostics, and service health.
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Improving scalability and reliability

Enhance the scalability, reliability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and operational quality of high-volume telemetry systems.
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Collaborating with teams

Work with engineering, infrastructure, trading systems, research, and regional operations teams to understand production debugging needs and improve observability adoption.

Key criteria

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Strong engineering experience

Proven experience in SRE, software engineering, or platform engineering.

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Technical understanding of observability

Experience with logs, metrics, traces, and alerting systems.

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Experience with telemetry systems

Demonstrated experience designing and operating high-volume telemetry pipelines.

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Strong engineering experience
Proven experience in SRE, software engineering, or platform engineering.

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Technical understanding of observability
Experience with logs, metrics, traces, and alerting systems.

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Experience with telemetry systems
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Production mindset
Ability to reason about failure modes and debugging workflows.

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