Principal Platform Engineer,

Industry / Sector:FinTech/Financial Services
Salary/Rate:£150,000-£170,000
Job type:Perm
Town/City:London
County:London
Job ref:NP-8914593
Post Date:26. 11. 2025
Scroll

Meet Our Recruiter

Thomas Osborn
Thomas Osborn
Technology Recruitment Consultant

About the Role

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.

More jobs from this recruiter

View All

Networking Specialist

London
London
£160,000-180,000
Ncounter is supporting a global financial services organisation as they hire a senior Networking Specialist into a business-critical infrastructure role based in London, with hybrid working in place. This team underpins highly available, low-latency platforms that operate across international markets and demand exceptional network performance and stability.

Platform Engineer (DV Cleared)

Wiltshire
Wiltshire
£90,000-100,000
Ncounter are supporting a secure government focused programme that is scaling its cloud and platform engineering capability. We are looking for DV Cleared Platform Engineers who enjoy solving complex problems in high assurance environments. The focus is on building reliable Kubernetes platforms, strengthening CI/CD automation, and embedding security into modern engineering practices.

Software Developer Post-Trade Automation

Canary Wharf
London
£160,000-£180,000
Ncounter are supporting a globally recognised systematic investment firm in hiring a Python focused Software Developer to join their Post Trade engineering group. This team builds and operates the pipelines that sit at the heart of post trade processing, powering millions of transactions and ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance across global markets.

Principal Platform Engineer,

London
London
£150,000-£170,000
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.