Software Engineer - Infrastructure / Observability

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Software Engineer with a focus on Infrastructure and Observability to join their high-performing team. This role involves creating monitoring tools and improving system visibility for a top-tier financial client. Candidates should have strong software engineering skills and familiarity with modern observability tools.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in Go or Python.
• Experience working in or alongside platform engineering teams.
• Comfortable working across both code and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Software engineering skills

Familiarity with observability tools

Infrastructure as code

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Terraform

Ansible

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Software Engineer - Infrastructure / Observability, slough

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Client:

SGI

Location:

slough, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

26.06.2025

Expiry Date:

10.08.2025

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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 preferred)
• 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.