Senior Full-Stack Observability Engineer AI-Driven

HSBC; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare (UK)

Enhanced maternity & adoption pay

Contributory pension scheme

Job summary

HSBC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to design, build, and operate the full-stack observability platform powering metrics, logs and traces across critical systems.

You will develop telemetry ingestion, APIs, and visual dashboards, integrating with Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, while enabling real-time streaming with Kafka and AI-driven insights. UK benefits include private healthcare, enhanced parental pay, and a contributory pension.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in full-stack software engineering with end-to-end delivery.
• Backend development and API design using Java, Python, Go or Node.js.
• Experience with data visualization and observability UI (Grafana, D3.js).
• Applied AI/ML engineering in production, incl. LLM APIs and MLOps basics.
• Strong SQL/NoSQL skills and time-series storage/querying knowledge.
• Observability concepts across metrics, logs, traces, instrumentation.
• Hands-on integration with Kafka or similar streaming platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the full-stack observability platform.
• Develop telemetry ingestion and API services for telemetry data.
• Deliver user-friendly dashboards and UI workflows for engineers.
• Integrate with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Design real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka Streams/Connect.
• Ensure resiliency, delivery semantics, retries, and DLQ patterns.
• Embed AI/ML features like anomaly detection and predictive alerting.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Backend API design

Data visualization

Applied AI/ML production

SQL/NoSQL

Observability tooling

Kafka streaming

Tools

Grafana

D3.js

Kafka

Prometheus

Job description

HSBC is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to design, build, and operate the full-stack observability platform powering metrics, logs and traces across critical systems.

You will develop telemetry ingestion, APIs, and visual dashboards, integrating with Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, while enabling real-time streaming with Kafka and AI-driven insights. UK benefits include private healthcare, enhanced parental pay, and a contributory pension.