Observability Engineer: $250,000 + Bonus (Fintech)

Job Title: Platform (Observability) Engineer

Client: Fintech trading

Salary: $250,000 + Bonuses & Benefits

Location: Montreal

A leading systematic trading firm is hiring a hands-on Observability Platform Specialist. Models drive every decision here, which means data is everywhere: huge volumes of market and alternative data, large research compute, and low-latency production trading systems spread across regions. Understanding what all of that is doing, in real time, is a serious engineering problem, and this is the team that solves it.

What you’ll do

• Own the metrics, logging, tracing and alerting platform end to end, from collection and ingestion to storage, querying, dashboards and alerts
• Build and run telemetry pipelines that handle very high throughput and high-cardinality data across multiple regions
• Create automated, self-service tooling so teams can get value from their data without raising tickets
• Cut alert noise and improve signal for on-call engineers
• Write production-grade code in Python, Go or Rust, including operators, exporters and pipeline components

What you’ll bring

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering
• Python and Git, plus Go or Rust
• Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack: Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, Elastic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AlertManager
• Observability at scale for distributed applications on Kubernetes
• Strong Linux, Bash and containers background
• Clear communication, and a degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar

Nice to have

• Ansible or Terraform
• ClickHouse or other high-volume time-series/columnar stores
• Running high-cardinality telemetry with cost and retention controls

Why this one

• Genuinely data-heavy: the telemetry is a big-data platform in its own right
• Full ownership of the platform and its direction, not a support seat
• Engineers use what you build every day, and the stakes are real