Contract Observability Engineer

Real Time Observability Engineer | Contract | £650 INSIDE IR35 | Hybrid/Global Platform | High Performance Systems We are working with a global Real Time data platform operating across multiple markets and high-throughput trading environments. Key responsibilities Build and maintain application-layer observability components that aggregate and correlate telemetry across distributed services into unified system-wide views Design and implement logic for hotspot detection and data quality measurement across latency, completeness, accuracy, and stability Develop telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces across Real Time distributed systems Extend low-level instrumentation approaches where required, including Kernel-level or high-efficiency data capture techniques What you bring Strong software engineering background building observability, telemetry, or distributed data systems Experience with Real Time or streaming data environments Proficiency in systems-level programming (C++, Go, or Rust) alongside a higher-level language such as Python, Java, or TypeScript Exposure to OpenTelemetry or similar observability frameworks Understanding of SLI and SLO modelling in low-latency or high-availability environments Experience building or operating synthetic monitoring at scale is highly desirable Familiarity with containerised environments and cloud-native architectures, ideally Kubernetes-based platforms Strong experience with API-driven development and CI/CD or GitOps ..... full job details .....