Principal Engineer: Edge Delivery & Observability

Aboutus Ft; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & conferences

Bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Generous pension

Job summary

The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor) to lead the Edge Delivery & Observability work. This role drives technical direction across multiple feature teams, delivering robust tooling and SaaS infrastructure with a focus on operability and monitoring.

You will collaborate with delivery, product management, and other disciplines to ensure high engineering standards, while maintaining strong vendor relationships and contributing to department-wide processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams
• Strong collaboration across disciplines and teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for feature teams across the group
• Lead delivery of quality tooling and products to reduce developer toil
• Collaborate with people managers and cross-functional teams to align on goals
• Model and reinforce an inclusive, respectful culture
• Maintain relationships with vendors and communicate with senior management

Skills

Team Leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Communication

Python

Go

Tools

AWS

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Cloudflare

Route53

Job description

The Financial Times is seeking a Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor) to lead the Edge Delivery & Observability work. This role drives technical direction across multiple feature teams, delivering robust tooling and SaaS infrastructure with a focus on operability and monitoring.

You will collaborate with delivery, product management, and other disciplines to ensure high engineering standards, while maintaining strong vendor relationships and contributing to department-wide processes.