Real-Time Software Engineer: Low-Latency & Observability

lseg; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Real-Time Engineering team. You will contribute to a global low-latency market data platform that sends billions of price updates daily and build APIs, telemetry pipelines and monitoring services to ensure reliability across a distributed system.

This early-career role focuses on mastering distributed systems, observability and cloud-native software while collaborating with experienced engineers to deliver production-grade

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience gained through employment, a graduate role, or open-source contribution.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve software components that aggregate, correlate and present data from over 30 global distribution sites.
• Develop applications and data-processing logic that help identify performance issues, service degradation and hotspots across distributed systems.
• Contribute to telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform and route metrics, logs and traces into a common observability layer.
• Deliver synthetic monitoring capabilities that measure the performance and experience of Real-Time services from locations around the world.
• Develop APIs, automation and configuration used to manage observability services and capabilities.
• Use Git, CI/CD and configuration-as-code practices to deploy and maintain software and observability assets consistently across environments.
• Work with engineering squads to add and improve instrumentation within applications across Development, Test, PPE and Production environments.
• Work alongside expert engineers to learn modern approaches to observability, distributed systems, cloud-native software and real-time data platforms.
• Contribute ideas and improvements as the Real-Time observability platform continues to evolve.

Skills

Software engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

London Stock Exchange Group is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Real-Time Engineering team. You will contribute to a global low-latency market data platform that sends billions of price updates daily and build APIs, telemetry pipelines and monitoring services to ensure reliability across a distributed system.

This early-career role focuses on mastering distributed systems, observability and cloud-native software while collaborating with experienced engineers to deliver production-grade