Principal Platform Engineer

Canary Wharf
4 days ago
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Principal Platform Engineer, Observability

£150,000–170,000 + bonus

Join a high-performance trading platform and take ownership of their Observability and SRE evolution. You’ll work at scale, shaping data ingestion and monitoring pipelines that handle huge real-time trading flows.

What you’ll work with

* Python or Go in a DevOps/SRE setting

* Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud

* Prometheus, Grafana, telemetry and full Observability tooling

* GitLab, Bitbucket and modern CI/CD

* Bonus: Slurm, HPC

What they’re looking for

* 8+ years engineering with Python or Go

* Strong systems engineering mindset

* Confident in design discussions, delivering clean and reliable code

* Keen to learn, contribute and shape technical direction

This is a chance to build greenfield Observability services for one of Europe’s most advanced trading platforms, now expanding into crypto and new asset classes. High impact, strong engineering culture and a serious technical challenge

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