Senior Engineer - C++ Go or Rust

EPAM Systems; Katowice; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Multisport

Shopping vouchers

Referral bonuses (up to $2,000)

ESPP 15% discount

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Poland seeks a Senior Engineer to design and build the application layer for real-time observability data across the client’s platform, spanning 100M instruments in 34 countries. You will work on data pipelines, telemetry, and end-to-end visibility across services.

The role requires 7+ years in software engineering, proficiency in C++, Go, or Rust, and experience with OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and GitOps. Hybrid work model, with potential remote days in Poland.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering with data-pipeline applications, metrics aggregation, distributed tracing, or real-time streaming.
• Background in latency-sensitive or market data systems.
• Proficiency in at least one systems-level language (C++, Go, or Rust) and one scripting/application language (Python, Java, or TypeScript).
• Understanding of C++ to comprehend existing applications.
• Experience building and operating synthetic monitoring solutions at scale across distributed sites.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry SDKs, collectors, and telemetry export schema.
• Skills in cloud-native, containerized, and Kubernetes environments, including deploying and operating services at scale.
• Proficiency with GitOps-based workflows, config-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure.
• Strong analytical mindset for modeling distributed-system behaviors and understanding customer impact.
• Excellent communication across squads.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the application components that aggregate, correlate, and present observability data from individual services into unified, end-to-end views of the Real-Time platform.
• Implement customer-centric aggregation and hotspot detection algorithms reflecting timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and stability of market data.
• Develop telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform, and route metrics, traces, and logs from distributed services into a coherent observability layer.
• Design and build custom synthetic monitoring agents deployed across hundreds of global sites to measure customer experience of Real-Time data.
• Implement GitOps/API-driven workflows for observability assets to ensure consistent deployment, versioning, and promotion through build pipelines.
• Collaborate with squads to integrate observability instrumentation into applications across Dev, Test, PPE, and Prod environments.

Skills

C++

Go

Rust

Python

Java

TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Senior Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Engineer with expertise in C++, Go, or Rust to join the team responsible for building the application layer that combines single-application observability data into end-to-end insight for the client's Real-Time platform. This role applies technical knowledge to design, build, and improve the software and infrastructure that makes the customer experience of the client's exchange data and feeds measurable across over 100 million financial instruments in over 34 countries.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the application components that aggregate, correlate, and present observability data from individual services into unified, end-to-end views of the Real-Time platform
• Implement customer-centric aggregation and hotspot detection algorithms that reflect timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and stability of market data across the Real-Time estate
• Develop and extend telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform, and route metrics, traces, and logs from distributed services into a coherent observability layer
• Design and build custom synthetic monitoring agents deployed across hundreds of global sites to continuously measure customer experience of Real-Time data from the edge
• Implement GitOps/API-driven workflows for observability assets to ensure consistent deployment, versioning, and promotion through build pipelines
• Collaborate with squads to integrate observability instrumentation into applications throughout Dev, Test, PPE, and Prod environments

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building data-pipeline applications, including metrics aggregation, distributed tracing, or real-time streaming
• Background in industry experience with latency-sensitive or market data systems
• Proficiency in at least one systems-level language (C++, Go, or Rust) and one scripting/application language (Python, Java, or TypeScript)
• Understanding of C++ to comprehend existing applications
• Background in building and operating custom synthetic monitoring solutions at scale, including lightweight agents distributed across geographically diverse sites
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry SDKs, collectors, and schema conventions for instrumentation and telemetry export
• Skills in cloud-native, containerized, and Kubernetes environments, including deploying and operating services at scale
• Proficiency with API- & GitOps-based workflows, config-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure
• Showcase of a strong analytical mindset for modeling complex distributed-system behaviors and understanding customer impact
• Capability to communicate effectively across squads and simplify system performance concepts for broader stakeholders
• Proficiency in English at a B2+ level

We offer

We gather like-minded people: Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization

Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture

Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland

Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually

Business-driven relocation opportunities

Growth opportunities

Career development programs

Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs

Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)

English classes

Benefits

Stable pay

Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount

• Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
• Corporate, social and well-being events

Please, note:Benefits listed above are available to employees only

We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually

We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.