Senior Engineer - C++, Go, or Rust

EPAM Systems; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid by design

Remote work within Poland

Relocation opportunities

Stock purchase plan

Health insurance and multisport

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Engineer to join the Real-Time platform team, focusing on the application layer that unifies observability data across 100M instruments in 34+ countries. You will design, build, and improve software and infrastructure to enhance customer experiences with market data feeds.

Required skills include C++, Go, or Rust plus Python/Java/TypeScript, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes. The role emphasizes GitOps, telemetry pipelines, and collaboration across squads in a hybrid

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in data-pipeline apps.
• Experience with latency-sensitive or market data systems.
• Proficiency in at least one systems language (C++, Go, or Rust) and one scripting language.
• OpenTelemetry and telemetry export knowledge.
• Cloud-native, Kubernetes environments.
• Strong communication in English (B2+).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain application components that aggregate, correlate, and present observability data into end-to-end views.
• Implement customer-centric aggregation and hotspot detection for market data.
• Develop telemetry pipelines ingesting traces, metrics, and logs from distributed services.
• Design and build synthetic monitoring agents deployed across global sites.
• Implement GitOps/API-driven workflows for observability assets.
• Collaborate with squads to integrate instrumentation across Dev, Test, PPE and Prod.

Skills

C++

Go

Rust

Python

Java

TypeScript

English (B2+)

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

GitOps

Job description

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- and 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
• We provide growth opportunities:
  • Career development programs
  • Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well‑being programs
  • Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
  • English classes
• We cover it all:
  • 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.