Global Observability Team Lead
OptiverAbout the Role
This is a hands-on technical leadership role leading observability as a business-critical platform capability across Optiver's globally distributed trading environment. You will own the strategy, architecture, operating model, adoption approach, and roadmap for the shared observability platform that enables engineers, operators, trading teams, and automated systems to collect, query, understand, and act on metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, and health signals.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting global strategy, architecture, operating model, and roadmap for the observability platform
- Leading and developing a globally distributed team of engineers
- Defining observability standards and expectations across telemetry quality, instrumentation, alerting, and dashboards
- Guiding technical direction across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualization, and alerting
- Improving platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness at scale
- Enhancing developer and operator experience through self-service workflows and documentation
- Partnering with engineering teams to drive adoption
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering, SRE, platform, infrastructure, or observability teams in a complex technical environment
- Experience owning or shaping a platform capability, including strategy, roadmap, architecture, operating model, adoption, governance, and measurable outcomes
- Deep understanding of modern observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health
- Experience designing or leading large-scale observability platforms, including ingest pipelines, storage backends, query systems, retention models, visualization, alerting, resilience, and scale-related trade-offs
- Strong technical judgement, people leadership, and delivery discipline
- Ability to influence without direct control across engineering teams
- A pragmatic approach to platform adoption, balancing global standardisation with regional autonomy, local production needs, and existing systems
What You'll Get
- A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry, combining profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool to foster a truly collaborative environment
- The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
- Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
- Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary