Observability Engineer - Trading - 600K+ PLNK

Oliver Bernard; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 540,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Bernard is seeking an experienced Observability Engineer for a Warsaw-based trading tech firm. You will lead the development of monitoring, telemetry, and automation across critical production systems.

The role covers OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack, and CI/CD pipelines; strong Linux and scripting skills required. This greenfield initiative offers scale and challenging traffic patterns.

Qualifications

• Experience in observability platforms and monitoring.
• Strong experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, and the ELK stack.
• CI/CD, Cloud and DevOps experience would be ideal.
• Automation and scripting with Python and/or Bash required.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Ansible or Puppet.
• Solid knowledge of Linux infrastructure.
• Experience in large-scale distributed IT environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate the observability platform across production systems.
• Develop monitoring, telemetry, metrics and tracing solutions to support scaling and performance.
• Collaborate with infra teams to drive automation and reliability.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Linux

Distributed systems

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Puppet

Elasticsearch

Job description

Observability Engineer - Trading - 600K+ PLNK

Our client is one of the world’s leading algo trading firms and in Warsaw are looking to hire an experienced Monitoring / Observability engineer to grow their core Infrastructure Engineering team and build out their Observability Platform, Automation and Performance function.

You’ll be a key part of the engineering of monitoring, observability and automation solutions, covering key production systems and applications across their entire IT estate.

You'll have the chance to work across telemetry, metrics and tracing and drive scaling to accommodate LLM and Claude endpoint traffic - Huge volumes of data and traffic every second.

You’ll help drive the vision, design and implementation of monitoring and observability systems including Prometheus, Grafana and the Elastic Stack (ELK) etc.

This is a true greenfield opportunity. You’ll be joining right at the start of new investment and a drive to revolutionise their infrastructure.

Requirements

• Excellent previous experience in a similar Observability role.
• Experience of engineering and supporting solutions (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk etc)
• Experience of CI/CD, Cloud and DevOps would be ideal
• Experience of automation and scripting with Python and / or Bash
• Experience with tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or Puppet
• Good knowledge of Linux infrastructure
• Experience working in complex, large-scale, distributed IT infrastructures