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For over 35 years, Optiver has been improving financial markets worldwide, making them more transparent and efficient for all participants. With more than 1,400 employees in offices around the world, we’re united in our commitment to improving the market through competitive pricing, execution and thorough risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world, we actively trade on 70+ exchanges, where we’re trusted to always provide accurate buy and sell pricing - no matter the market conditions.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nWe are looking for aPrincipal Observability Platform Engineer to help evolve observability as a business-critical platform capability at Optiver. You will work on the shared platform behind metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, diagnostics, instrumentation and service health.\nThis is a platform engineering role for someone who enjoys building reliable systems used by other engineers. 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You are comfortable working on systems that need to be reliable, scalable, understandable, and useful to other engineers.\nYou understand that observability is not just a tooling problem. It is about signal quality, platform reliability, developer experience, production workflows, and adoption. You care about building systems that engineers trust, operators can rely on, and production teams can depend on during high-pressure situations.\nYou will bring:\nStrong engineering experience in SRE, software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, observability, developer tooling, or distributed systems.\n\nA production mindset, with the ability to reason about failure modes, debugging workflows, service reliability, operational impact, and how systems behave under pressure.\n\nTechnical understanding of modern observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health.\n\nExperience designing, building, or operating reliable services, platforms, pipelines, tools, or automation used by other engineering teams.\n\nGood judgement in technical trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, complexity, cost, and maintainability.\n\nA delivery mindset, with the ability to take ambiguous platform problems and turn them into practical, reliable solutions.\n\nStrong preference will be given to candidates with experience on observability, SRE, infrastructure, platform, production engineering, or developer tooling teams in large-scale distributed systems environments, including telemetry pipelines, streaming systems, time-series data, log platforms, query systems, alerting systems, or production diagnostics tooling.\n\nExperience with technologies such as Kafka, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Vector, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus-style systems, or custom telemetry collectors is valued.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL GET\nA performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.\n\nThe chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.\n\nTraining, mentorship and personal development opportunities.\n\nDaily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.\n\nGym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.\n\nRegular social events, including a company trip every two years.\n\nGuided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.\n\nDIVERSITY STATEMENT\nOptiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.\nQuestions? 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