Software Engineer - Infrastructure / Observability

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Engineer focused on Infrastructure and Observability for a six-month contract, offering up to £750 per day. You'll work on innovative projects at a top-tier finance firm, creating tooling and monitoring solutions that enhance system visibility. Ideal candidates will have strong software engineering experience, particularly in Go or Python, and familiarity with observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus. This role provides a unique opportunity to contribute to high-impact infrastructure work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills required, ideally in Go or Python.
• Experience working with infrastructure teams.
• Familiarity with modern observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Writing Prometheus exporters and integrations for infrastructure systems.
• Building out dashboards and monitoring pipelines using Grafana and Prometheus.
• Developing infrastructure-as-code tooling.

Skills

Software engineering skills

Python

Go

Infrastructure-as-code tooling

Programming for observability

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Software Engineer – Infrastructure / Observability Focus (Inside IR35, up to £750/day)

Are you a software engineer who enjoys solving infrastructure problems - someone who sits comfortably between development and platform engineering?

Join a small, high-performing engineering team on a project at a top-tier quant fund, helping to build out observability capabilities. This is not an SRE or sysadmin role – it would suit a software engineer who cares about clean, testable code and good software practices, but prefers working in the infra/tooling space.

What you’ll be doing:

• Writing Prometheus exporters and integrations for infrastructure systems
• Building out dashboards and monitoring pipelines in Grafana and Prometheus
• Developing infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• Designing well-structured, testable software that improves system visibility

What they’re looking for:

• Strong software engineering skills (Go or Python )
• Experience working in or alongside platform engineering teams
• Familiarity with modern observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• Comfort working across both code and infrastructure – but this is not a pure ops/SRE role
• If you've worked in finance that would be great but not mandatory

The role offers an initial 6-month initial contract, Inside IR35, up to £750/day but may be some flexibility. The role requires two days on site in the firm's state-of-the-art offices in London.