Observability Engineer

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.

From our London HQ we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution - because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together were building a world-class platform to amplify our teams most powerful ideas.

As part of our engineering team youll shape the platforms and tools that drive high-impact research - designing systems that scale accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm.

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The role

The Observability Engineering Team manages the doors - both entry and exit - to the telemetry backends at G-Research ensuring our engineers can effectively produce and consume telemetry for their services.

As an Observability Engineer youll help make observability seamless for developers and platform teams by building pipes to ingest and route data in predictable composable ways as well as visualising that data after the fact.

Youll have deep experience across observability stacks a clear understanding of the unique problems that come with moving cloud-level volumes of telemetry data at scale and excitement at the prospect of ensuring our customers have eyes into the telemetry data to run their services as efficiently as possible.

Knowledge of and experience running Open Telemetry at scale creating SDKs and libraries serving a wide variety of applications and services is a strong plus.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Extending and maintaining OpenTelemetry including collectors SDKs and exporters

• Building scalable telemetry pipelines

• Contributing to Golden Path SDKs and auto-instrumentation

• Ensuring Kubernetes workloads are fully observable and resilient

• Embedding observability standards across platform and application teams

• Improving incident response with better telemetry coverage

• Providing external industry observability experience and input to our long-term roadmap

• Participating on the out of hours on-call rotation

Who are we looking for

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry

• Proficiency in Kubernetes and cloud-native observability

• DevOps tooling experience across Terraform ArgoCD Helm and CI/CD

• Experience with metrics logs and tracing backends

• Coding in Go Python or other

• Distributed systems knowledge

• Industry background in Observability or SRE at scale

• Desirable but not essential experience includes profiling (eBPF Pixie Parca) synthetic monitoring AI-observability tools and Kafka

Why should you apply

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus

• Lunch provided (viaJust Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar

• 35 days annual leave

• 9% company pension contributions

• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance

• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Monthly company events

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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