Senior SRE Engineer (Observability Focus)
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We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talented team.
Were building out our observability practice and need a senior engineer who can own it end to end. This is a hands-on role. Youll design and operate the telemetry stack that gives our engineering teams real visibility into production across a hybrid AWS and on-premise environment at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Own the full observability stack: metrics (VictoriaMetrics) logs (OpenSearch) and traces (OpenTelemetry) from pipeline design to day-2 operations.
- Architect and run VictoriaMetrics cluster topology (vmstorage/vminsert/vmselect) including vmagent scraping remote write configuration vmalert rules and cardinality control.
- Operate OpenSearch clusters: index lifecycle management (ISM) hot-warm-cold architecture shard tuning and ingest pipelines via Data Prepper.
- Build and maintain OTEL Collector pipelines receivers processors exporters and instrument services across Java Python and JS/TS stacks (auto and manual).
- Run Kafka as the telemetry transport layer (OTEL Collector Kafka backends) including topic design partition strategy consumer group lag monitoring and throughput tuning for high-volume telemetry.
- Manage log shipping infrastructure using Fluent Bit Vector or Fluentd; define structured logging standards and field normalization across services.
- Build Grafana dashboards and alerting that engineers actually use clear actionable with well-structured variables and thresholds.
- Work with platform and application teams to improve sampling strategies (head/tail) batching and context propagation across distributed services.
- Contribute to incident response post-mortems and reliability improvements driven by observability signals.
- Mentor engineers on observability practices tooling and structured logging standards.
Requirements:
- 6 years in a DevOps SRE or platform engineering role with at least 2 years focused on observability tooling at production scale.
- Deep hands-on experience with VictoriaMetrics (or Prometheus) MetricsQL/PromQL exporters service discovery remote write downsampling and retention management.
- Solid OpenSearch or Elasticsearch skills: cluster operations Query DSL ISM policies and ingest pipeline design.
- Production experience with OpenTelemetry: Collector configuration OTLP context propagation and instrumentation across multiple languages.
- Strong Kafka skills producer/consumer patterns consumer group management Kafka Connect Schema Registry and JMX-based monitoring. Strimzi experience a plus if youve run Kafka on Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with log shippers (Fluent Bit Vector Fluentd) and structured log parsing/normalization.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes (operators Helm) Argo CD/GitOps and Terraform/Ansible.
- Comfortable in a hybrid AWS on-prem environment; solid understanding of networking as it applies to scraping and shipping pipelines.
- Scripting ability in Bash or Python for automation and tooling.
- Strong communication skills you can explain observability tradeoffs clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike.
- English proficiency.
Required Experience:
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