Lead Observability Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability

Optiver; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Guided relocation

Visa sponsorship

Daily breakfast, lunch and in-houseBar

Gym membership + chair massages

Regular social events

Company trip every two years

Job summary

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm seeking a Principal Observability Platform Engineer to evolve observability as a core platform capability. You will influence the shared observability stack behind metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, diagnostics, instrumentation, and service health.

You will design, build, and operate components that scale across regions, improve instrumentation quality, and empower engineers, operators, trading teams, and automated systems to act on

Qualifications

• Production systems and platform engineering experience.
• Ability to design reliable services and scalable platforms.
• Experience with observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, events, and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate components of Optiver’s shared observability platform across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualisation, alerting, diagnostics, and service health.
• Build software, services, APIs, integrations, libraries, dashboards, automation, and reusable patterns that make observability easier to adopt and more reliable to operate.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, performance, cost‑effectiveness, and operational quality of high‑volume telemetry systems.
• Improve developer and operator experience through self‑service workflows, golden paths, documentation, investigation tooling, and practical platform abstractions.
• Work with engineering, infrastructure, trading systems, research, and regional operations teams to understand production debugging needs and improve observability adoption.
• Own the reliability and operational quality of the components you build, including service health, failure modes, monitoring, incident learnings, and continuous improvement.
• Raise the standard for telemetry quality, instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, diagnostic workflows, and service health across Optiver.

Skills

SRE

Platform engineering

Observability

Distributed systems

Developer tooling

Telemetry pipelines

Tools

Kafka

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

ClickHouse

VictoriaMetrics

InfluxDB

Telegraf

Vector

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus-style systems

Job description

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm seeking a Principal Observability Platform Engineer to evolve observability as a core platform capability. You will influence the shared observability stack behind metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, diagnostics, instrumentation, and service health.

You will design, build, and operate components that scale across regions, improve instrumentation quality, and empower engineers, operators, trading teams, and automated systems to act on