Senior Software Engineer (Java / Observability)

We re partnering with an innovative technology company that s helping some of the world s leading organisations make their digital platforms more secure reliable and seamless Their technology operates in complex high-security environments where performance scalability and reliability are critical With a platform deployed across public clouds private infrastructure and highly secure on-premise environments they re tackling engineering challenges that go well beyond traditional cloud applications strong And that s where this opportunity gets interesting strong They re investing in the next generation of their engineering infrastructure creating a more consistent scalable and intelligent way to monitor and operate their systems You ll be joining a talented engineering team where your work will directly influence how services are built deployed and maintained across the business

We re looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer specialising in Java and Observability strong to help build the tools and infrastructure that make that possible You ll work on a platform used across multiple cloud and on-premise environments developing the instrumentation telemetry pipelines and monitoring capabilities that engineering teams rely on every day From strong Java Spring Boot and OpenTelemetry to Kubernetes and distributed systems strong you ll have the opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges and influence how observability is implemented across the entire platform This is a hands-on engineering role with genuine technical ownership where you ll collaborate with other engineers to improve system reliability simplify troubleshooting and make their development experience better

• Build and improve observability infrastructure developing scalable solutions for collecting and analysing metrics logs and traces
• Develop Java-based instrumentation using OpenTelemetry Micrometer and Spring Boot to make services observable from deployment
• Design telemetry pipelines that work consistently across AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes and on-premise environments
• Improve monitoring and alerting helping engineering teams identify issues faster and reduce unnecessary alerts
• Develop dashboards and reliability metrics including SLIs SLOs and error budgets to support production operations
• Integrate observability platforms including New Relic and other monitoring tools through vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry pipelines

• strong 8 years of professional experience strong working with Java and JVM-based technologies in production environments
• Strong hands-on experience with strong Java 17 21 and Spring Boot strong
• Practical experience implementing strong OpenTelemetry strong including instrumentation distributed tracing and telemetry pipelines
• Strong understanding of strong distributed systems microservices and backend architecture strong
• Experience working with strong Kubernetes strong and deploying applications across cloud or on-premise environments
• Familiarity with strong New Relic strong including monitoring dashboards and alerting
• Understanding of strong metrics logs traces SLIs SLOs and production monitoring strong
• Experience building reusable engineering tools libraries or infrastructure used by multiple teams

8+ years of professional experience working with Java and JVM-based technologies in production environments. Strong hands-on experience with Java 17/21 and Spring Boot. Practical experience implementing OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation, distributed tracing and telemetry pipelines. Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices and backend architecture. Experience working with Kubernetes and deploying applications across cloud or on-premise environments. Familiarity with New Relic, including monitoring, dashboards and alerting. Understanding of metrics, logs, traces, SLIs, SLOs and production monitoring. Experience building reusable engineering tools, libraries or infrastructure used by multiple teams.