Platform Engineer

Ncounter; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trading platform in the UK is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to take ownership of their Observability and SRE evolution. You will work at scale, shaping data ingestion and monitoring pipelines for real-time trading flows. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of engineering experience in Python or Go, demonstrating a strong systems engineering mindset. This role presents a high-impact opportunity to build greenfield Observability services, contributing to one of Europe's most advanced trading platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience engineering with Python or Go.
• Strong systems engineering mindset needed.
• Confident in design discussions and code delivery.
• Eager to learn and contribute to technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Shape data ingestion and monitoring pipelines at scale.
• Build greenfield Observability services for the trading platform.

Skills

Python or Go in DevOps/SRE

Linux

Kubernetes

Public Cloud Experience

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD (GitLab, Bitbucket)

Job description

Principal Platform Engineer, Observability

£150,000170,000 + bonus

Join a high-performance trading platform and take ownership of their Observability and SRE evolution. Youll work at scale, shaping data ingestion and monitoring pipelines that handle huge real-time trading flows.

What youll work with

• Python or Go in a DevOps / SRE setting
• Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud
• Prometheus, Grafana, telemetry and full Observability tooling
• GitLab, Bitbucket and modern CI / CD
• Bonus : Slurm, HPC

What theyre looking for

• 8+ years engineering with Python or Go
• Strong systems engineering mindset
• Confident in design discussions, delivering clean and reliable code
• Keen to learn, contribute and shape technical direction

This is a chance to build greenfield Observability services for one of Europes most advanced trading platforms, now expanding into crypto and new asset classes. High impact, strong engineering culture and a serious technical challenge.