Lead C++ Engineer with Observability

About the Position

We are seeking a Lead C++ Engineer with Observability to lead the observability implementation. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, ensuring customer experience, system reliability, and operational insight are measurable and embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will bring significant experience from low-latency trading, market data, or other high-performance distributed systems, with a strong C++ background and a track record of building production monitoring, telemetry, and operational tooling at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead observability implementation across the software development lifecycle
• Ensure customer experience, system reliability, and operational insight are measurable and embedded
• Build and operate large-scale monitoring, observability, or control platforms
• Establish standards and drive adoption of observability best practices
• Engage with development teams effectively to deliver telemetry and operational tooling
• Implement metrics, tracing, logging, profiling, and telemetry pipelines
• Drive customer-experience measurement for latency-sensitive market data systems
• Influence engineering teams to align on observability outcomes

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in observability engineering, including metrics, tracing, and logging
• Expertise in profiling and telemetry pipelines
• Understanding of customer-experience measurement for latency-sensitive market data systems
• Background in building and operating large-scale monitoring, observability, or control platforms
• Proficiency in C++ engineering and the ability to engage effectively with development teams
• Skills in OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and GitOps
• Competency in API-driven automation and CI/CD-integrated observability practices
• Familiarity with cloud-native, Kubernetes, and distributed systems architectures
• Proven ability to influence engineering teams and establish standards
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to Have

• Background in trading or market-making
• Familiarity with exchange connectivity
• Knowledge of market data environments

We Offer

We gather like-minded people: Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud, and digital platform modernization. Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture. Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland. Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually. Business-driven relocation opportunities.

We provide growth opportunities: Career development programs, thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills, and well-being programs. Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS). English classes.

We cover it all: Stable pay. Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount. Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers). Referral bonuses up to $2,000. Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis, football, free snacks, coffee, and more. Corporate, social, and well-being events.

Please, note: Benefits listed above are available to employees only. We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually. We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively.