Lead C++ Engineer with Observability

We are seeking a Lead C++ Engineer with Observability to lead the observability implementation. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, ensuring customer experience, system reliability and operational insight are measurable and embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will bring significant experience from low-latency trading, market data or other high-performance distributed systems, with a strong C++ background and a track record of building production monitoring, telemetry and operational tooling at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead observability implementation across the software development lifecycle
• Ensure customer experience, system reliability and operational insight are measurable and embedded
• Build and operate large-scale monitoring, observability or control platforms
• Establishment of standards and drive adoption of observability best practices
• Engagement with development teams effectively to deliver telemetry and operational tooling
• Implementation of metrics, tracing, logging, profiling and telemetry pipelines
• Drive customer-experience measurement for latency-sensitive market data systems
• Influence engineering teams to align on observability outcomes

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in observability engineering, including metrics, tracing and logging
• Expertise in profiling and telemetry pipelines
• Understanding of customer-experience measurement for latency-sensitive market data systems
• Background in building and operating large-scale monitoring, observability or control platforms
• Proficiency in C++ engineering and the ability to engage effectively with development teams
• Skills in OpenTelemetry, eBPF and GitOps
• Competency in API-driven automation and CI/CD-integrated observability practices
• Familiarity with cloud-native, Kubernetes and distributed systems architectures
• Proven ability to influence engineering teams and establish standards
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to have

• Background in trading or market-making
• Familiarity with exchange connectivity
• Knowledge of market data environments

Benefits

We gather like-minded people:

• Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
• Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
• Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
• Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
• Business-driven relocation opportunities

We provide growth opportunities:

• Career development programs
• Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
• Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes

We cover it all:

• Stable pay
• Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
• Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
• Corporate, social and well-being events

Please, note:

• Benefits listed above are available to employees only
• We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
• We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively