Senior Observability Platform Engineer | Scale & Reliability

Optiver

Sydney

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Visa sponsorship where necessary

Gym membership

Daily breakfast and lunch

In-house barista

Regular social events

Job summary

Optiver is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to evolve our global observability platform. You will design, build, and operate components for telemetry collection, storage, querying, dashboards, and alerting.

The role spans across platform and production domains, delivering reliable, scalable telemetry pipelines and golden paths for adoption. You will work with engineers, traders, and regional teams to understand production debugging needs, raise telemetry quality, and improve

Qualifications

Strong engineering background in SRE, software/platform engineering, or distributed systems.
Experience building reliable, scalable production services used by engineers.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate components of Optiver’s shared observability platform.
Develop telemetry pipelines and instrumentation to improve signal quality.
Create golden paths for adoption and self-service workflows for engineers and operators.
Improve scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of telemetry systems.
Collaborate across platform, production, trading, and regional teams to meet debugging needs.