Senior Observability Platform Engineer-Scale & Reliability

Optiver; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Mentorship & development

Daily breakfast, lunch & barista

Gym membership & chair massages

Social events & company trips

Relocation & visa sponsorship

Job summary

Optiver is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to evolve observability as a critical platform capability. You will design, build, and operate components for metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, diagnostics, instrumentation and service health.

This role focuses on turning a heterogeneous observability foundation into a globally consistent, regionally federated platform that scales, is easy to adopt, and deeply embedded in production systems across the company.

Qualifications

• Experience in production systems, platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, observability, or distributed systems.
• Ability to design, build, and operate reliable services and platforms used by engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health.

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 to improve observability adoption.
• Improve scalability, reliability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and operational quality of high-volume telemetry systems.
• Enhance developer and operator experience through self-service workflows, golden paths, documentation, investigation tooling, and practical platform abstractions.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, trading systems, research, and regional operations to improve observability adoption.

Skills

SRE experience

Platform engineering

Observability

Distributed systems

Production systems

Developer tooling

High-scale telemetry

Troubleshooting

Tools

Kafka

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

ClickHouse

VictoriaMetrics

InfluxDB

Telegraf

Vector

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

Optiver is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to evolve observability as a critical platform capability. You will design, build, and operate components for metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, dashboards, diagnostics, instrumentation and service health.

This role focuses on turning a heterogeneous observability foundation into a globally consistent, regionally federated platform that scales, is easy to adopt, and deeply embedded in production systems across the company.