Principal Platform Engineer

Principal Platform Engineer, Observability £150,000–170,000 + bonus Join a high-performance trading platform and take ownership of their Observability and SRE evolution. You’ll work at scale, shaping data ingestion and monitoring pipelines that handle huge real-time trading flows. What you’ll work with * Python or Go in a DevOps/SRE setting * Linux, Kubernetes, public cloud * Prometheus, Grafana, telemetry and full Observability tooling * GitLab, Bitbucket and modern CI/CD * Bonus: Slurm, HPC What they’re looking for * 8+ years engineering with Python or Go * Strong systems engineering mindset * Confident in design discussions, delivering clean and reliable code * Keen to learn, contribute and shape technical direction This is a chance to build greenfield Observability services for one of Europe’s most advanced trading platforms, now expanding into crypto and new asset classes. High impact, strong engineering culture and a serious technical challenge