Production & Observability Engineer — Scalable Systems

Winston Fox; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Winston Fox is seeking a Production and Observability Engineer with 2+ years of relevant experience to join a world‑class hedge fund’s Production Engineering team in Singapore. The role spans engineering, monitoring, and VIP support within a fast-paced, distributed trading environment.

You will build automation and CI/CD tooling, primarily in Python, with Go, PowerShell and SQL. You’ll work on system observability, production operations, and incident management with a bias for action.

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in modern engineering practices, including leveraging emerging technologies and AI-driven tooling to enhance reliability, automation and operational efficiency.
• Excellent communication skills, confident in explaining technical concepts to non-experts. Have a strong understanding of the open-source observability ecosystem for microservices (e.g. LGTM stack, OpenTelemetry) and related tooling.
• Demonstrated experience working in a large, complex technical landscape, with both modern and legacy systems written in multiple languages.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with high proficiency in at least one modern programming language and confidence in CI/CD tooling and release automation.
• Working knowledge in data and related technologies (SQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, S3).
• Demonstrated experience in debugging distributed applications across hybrid cloud environments.
• Demonstrated bias for action, strong sense of agency and accountability, with the ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Build Automation, CI/CD Pipelines and scalable tooling, primarily in Python with Go, PowerShell and SQL.
• Hands-on System Observability using metrics, logs and traces, and Production Operations management.
• Lead incidents and support trading systems in a fast-paced, high-availability environment.
• Provide VIP end-user and hardware support within a hybrid cloud and on-prem setup.

Skills

CI/CD tooling

Python

Go

PowerShell

SQL

Observability

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Tools

LGTM stack

OpenTelemetry

Elasticsearch

Snowflake

S3

Job description

Winston Fox is seeking a Production and Observability Engineer with 2+ years of relevant experience to join a world‑class hedge fund’s Production Engineering team in Singapore. The role spans engineering, monitoring, and VIP support within a fast-paced, distributed trading environment.

You will build automation and CI/CD tooling, primarily in Python, with Go, PowerShell and SQL. You’ll work on system observability, production operations, and incident management with a bias for action.