Python Software Engineer

Python Software Engineer - Observability Engineering - Quant Research

(You must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this position)

London (Hybrid) | c.£150k base + bonus

• I’m working with a top-tier quant trading firm building one of the most advanced automated research and trading platforms globally.
• They’re looking for a Python Software Engineer to join their Observability Engineering team, building the telemetry and monitoring infrastructure that underpins hundreds of services across the organisation.

The Role

• Build and maintain systems that handle cloud-scale volumes of telemetry data
• Extend and maintain OpenTelemetry collectors, SDKs and exporters
• Design and improve telemetry pipelines and observability backends
• Work with engineering teams to implement instrumentation standards and “Golden Paths”
• Improve incident response and operational visibility through better telemetry coverage
• Build tooling and libraries that improve developer productivity and platform observability

Tech Environment

• Python
• Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus / PromQL
• VictoriaMetrics
• OpenSearch
• GrafanaTerraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Jenkins

What they’re looking for

• Strong Python backend engineering experience
• Experience working in Kubernetes / cloud-native environments
• Interest or experience in observability, monitoring or telemetry systems
• Comfortable building distributed systems and internal developer tooling
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering teams

If you’re interested in building large-scale observability platforms in a high-performance engineering environment,