Observability Engineer: Scale Telemetry & OpenTelemetry

G-Research; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided

Barista bar

35 days leave

Company pension 9%

Healthcare

Cycle-to-work

Monthly events

Job summary

G-Research in London is seeking an Observability Engineer to design, scale and maintain telemetry backends supporting our research platforms. You’ll build pipelines, extend OpenTelemetry, and ensure services are fully observable at scale.

You will collaborate with platform teams, embrace Kubernetes and cloud tooling, and help shape the long-term telemetry roadmap. Ideal candidates have hands-on OpenTelemetry, dataDog/NewRelic experience, and a passion for reliable, observable systems.

Qualifications

• Experience operating SaaS observability platforms at scale in production.
• Hands-on OpenTelemetry development and integration across services.
• Strong Kubernetes and cloud tooling experience (AWS preferred).
• Proficiency in metrics, logs and tracing backends and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Architect, scale and maintain observability backends across services.
• Extend and maintain OpenTelemetry collectors and SDKs.
• Build scalable telemetry pipelines to move data reliably.
• Contribute to Golden Path SDKs and auto-instrumentation.
• Ensure Kubernetes workloads are fully observable and resilient.
• Embed observability standards across platform teams.
• Improve incident response with deeper telemetry coverage.
• Provide external observability experience to guide long-term roadmap.

Skills

SaaS observability

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps tooling

Go/Python scripting

Tools

DataDog

New Relic

Dynatrace

Job description

G-Research in London is seeking an Observability Engineer to design, scale and maintain telemetry backends supporting our research platforms. You’ll build pipelines, extend OpenTelemetry, and ensure services are fully observable at scale.

You will collaborate with platform teams, embrace Kubernetes and cloud tooling, and help shape the long-term telemetry roadmap. Ideal candidates have hands-on OpenTelemetry, dataDog/NewRelic experience, and a passion for reliable, observable systems.