Senior Real-Time Engineer (C++/Go/Rust)

EPAM Systems; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Multisport

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Referral bonuses up to $2,000

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Kraków seeks a Senior Engineer to design, build, and optimize the Real-Time platform's application layer. You will integrate data pipelines and observability components across services, delivering end-to-end insights for over 100 million instruments in 34 countries.

You will collaborate with cross-functional squads, implement GitOps-driven workflows, and extend telemetry pipelines with lightweight agents deployed globally. Strong English and latency-aware mindset required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building data-pipeline applications, including 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.
• 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.

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

Skills

C++/Go/Rust

Python/Java/TypeScript

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

GitOps/CI/CD

English (B2+)

Tools

OpenTelemetry SDKs

Job description

EPAM Systems in Kraków seeks a Senior Engineer to design, build, and optimize the Real-Time platform's application layer. You will integrate data pipelines and observability components across services, delivering end-to-end insights for over 100 million instruments in 34 countries.

You will collaborate with cross-functional squads, implement GitOps-driven workflows, and extend telemetry pipelines with lightweight agents deployed globally. Strong English and latency-aware mindset required.