Senior Software Engineer (Devops) - Observability Platform

Senior Software Engineer (Devops) - Observability Platform

Revolut

Multiple Locations

We're looking for a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to create a platform that continuously monitors thousands of applications, databases, and other systems. You'll be delivering a product solution our engineering teams will rely on for crucial information about logging, metrics, and tracing.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, implementing, and assembling scalable and resilient observability solutions across logs, metrics, and traces, leveraging existing market solutions or technologies from scratch;
• Building robust APIs and data pipelines to ingest, process, and expose observability data to product teams;
• Collaborating closely with product teams to understand their observability needs and integrate solutions that empower them to monitor, alert, and debug their components effectively;
• Optimising the observability infrastructure for performance, accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and an exceptional user experience;
• Developing and maintaining tooling to automate the onboarding/sunsetting of components to the observability platform and streamline data collection;
• Contributing to the strategic roadmap of the observability platform, identifying and implementing new features and improvements.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 3+ years focused on building and maintaining observability platforms or highly distributed systems;
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices;
• Expertise in designing and implementing APIs and data pipelines for high-throughput, real-time data ingestion;
• A practical understanding of distributed systems and their unique observability challenges;
• Hands-on experience with core observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, etc.;
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform);
• Proficiency in Python as your primary engineering language.

Nice to have

• Previous experience in a DevOps, SRE, or developer experience role;
• Experience with multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their native observability services;
• Contributions to open-source observability projects;
• A track record of prototyping and sketching new solutions to complex problems.