Python Software Engineer - Observability Engineering - Quant Research
(You must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position)
London (Hybrid) \| c.£150k base + bonus
I’m working with a
top-tier quant trading firm
building one of the most advanced automated research and trading platforms globally.
They’re looking for a
Python Software Engineer
to join their
Observability Engineering team
, building the telemetry and monitoring infrastructure that underpins hundreds of services across the organisation.
The Role
Build and maintain systems that handle
cloud-scale volumes of telemetry data
Extend and maintain
OpenTelemetry collectors, SDKs and exporters
Design and improve
telemetry pipelines and observability backends
Work with engineering teams to implement
instrumentation standards and “Golden Paths”
Improve
incident response and operational visibility
through better telemetry coverage
Build tooling and libraries that improve
developer productivity and platform observability
Tech Environment
Python
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus / PromQL
VictoriaMetrics
OpenSearch
Grafana
Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Jenkins
What they’re looking for
Strong
Python backend engineering experience
Experience working in
Kubernetes / cloud-native environments
Interest or experience in
observability, monitoring or telemetry systems
Comfortable building
distributed systems and internal developer tooling
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering teams
Package
If you’re interested in building
large-scale observability platforms in a high-performance engineering environment
, please apply.