Contract Software Engineer (Observability and Telemetry)

Real Time Kernel Observability Engineer | Contract | Inside IR35 | Hybrid London We''re working with a global Real Time data platform operating in ultra-low latency, high-throughput environments across distributed systems. This role sits in a specialist engineering team building Kernel-level observability and telemetry infrastructure used to monitor and understand system behaviour in Real Time. What you''ll be doing Build Kernel-level observability and instrumentation systems for distributed Real Time infrastructure Develop telemetry pipelines using eBPF-based tooling (metrics, logs, traces at Kernel level) Design and implement system-wide visibility across latency-critical services Work with hotspot detection, performance profiling, and system behaviour analysis Extend low-level instrumentation where required (Linux Kernel tracing, high-efficiency data capture) Contribute to observability architecture across high-scale distributed systems We are looking for engineers with strong experience in: eBPF/BPF/bpftrace/BCC Kprobes/uprobes/Kernel tracing Cilium/Grafana Beyla/XDP Linux Kernel instrumentation or performance engineering Low-latency or high-performance distributed systems Strong systems programming background (C++, Go or Rust preferred) Python/Java for higher-level services Kubernetes/cloud-native infrastructure Observability concepts (metrics, logs, traces, SLI/SLOs) Contract details Hybrid working (London) Inside IR35 Long-term contract Global Real Time data ..... full job details .....