Platform Engineer Observability

About the role 

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Observability team at Wise. 

Our teams goal is to empower teams within Wise to move fast and resolve issues as soon as possible by providing a set of observability tools that meet their needs. The team is responsible for a vast observability estate - covering metrics logs traces alerts and profiles. 

In this role youll own the centralised observability configuration used by hundreds of product services to ensure a standardised and seamless observability experience for every engineer at Wise.

How we work

We believe in programmatic implementation peer-reviewed code and automation. Were looking for an engineer who enjoys the challenge of managing a high-scale environment where a single configuration change can impact hundreds of services. Youll work closely with the wider platform tribe to ensure our observability estate is robust secure cost-efficient and developer-friendly.

What will you be working on

• Own the centralised observability configuration (otel) used by hundreds of product services at Wise to ensure standardised and reliable telemetry across the company.

• Contribute to evolve our observability tooling built on open-source projects such as Grafana and Elasticsearch to provide the best experience for engineers at Wise.

• Collaborate with engineering teams across Wise to improve their observability experience and help them get the most out of our tools.

• Manage the configuration of a vast observability estate - covering metrics logs traces alerts and profiling - by implementing automation and efficiencies ensuring reliability and supporting our mission-critical services.

What do you need

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• Software engineering experience in Java Go or Python with a focus on writing clean maintainable code.

• You have used observability tools like the LGTM or ELK stack and are interested in the engineering challenges of managing telemetry data.

• You understand the basics of instrumentation of applications (OpenTelemetry).

• You understand microservices and how a change in a central system propagates through a distributed environment.

• You understand the importance of availability and are eager to learn the ropes of supporting high-scale mission-critical infrastructure.

• Growth mindset: you enjoy the intersection of software and systems and are excited to build tools that other developers love to use.

Interested Find out more:

• How we work a practical guide

• DEI @ Wise

• Wise Tech Stack (2025 update)

• Our Engineering career map

• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work

• Wise Engineering do we offer: 

  • Starting salary: RSUs

  • Wise Benefits

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  Additional Information :

  For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

  Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.
  Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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  Remote Work :

  No

  
  

  Employment Type :

  Full-time