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
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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.

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