G-Re

Software Engineer — Observability Instrumentation

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2 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Extend and maintain OpenTelemetry SDKs, libraries, and collectors.
  • Build and support instrumentation paths across Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes workloads.
  • Embed observability standards and golden paths across platform and application teams.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering to improve productivity and engineering value.
  • Scale and improve telemetry backend systems and pipelines.
  • Improve incident response through better telemetry coverage.
  • Participate in the out-of-hours on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to turn standards into usable libraries, examples, and guidance.
  • Programming skills in C# and/or Python with a good understanding of software architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry SDKs, instrumentation, and collectors.
  • Proficiency in Kubernetes and cloud-native observability.
  • Understanding of metrics, logs, and traces and how engineering teams use them to debug and operate services.
  • Experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, or Jenkins.
  • Interest in AI engineering and SRE practices for improving incident response and root-cause analysis.
  • Desirable experience includes Prometheus/PromQL, VictoriaMetrics, OpenSearch, Grafana, auto-instrumentation, distributed tracing, structured logging, trace/metric correlation, Kafka, or telemetry pipeline architectures.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation plus an annual discretionary bonus.
  • Lunch provided through Just Eat for Business and access to a dedicated barista bar.
  • 35 days of annual leave.
  • 9% company pension contributions.
  • Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance.
  • Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance.
  • Cycle-to-work scheme.
  • Monthly company events.
  • London-based role at the company's London headquarters with participation in an out-of-hours on-call rotation.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaC#GrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

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