3384 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Requirements
Must:
- Strong software engineering background (Go, Java, or Python)
- Hands-on OpenTelemetry experience in production environments
- Deep experience with New Relic or similar APM/observability platforms
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architectures
- Experience instrumenting systems, not just consuming dashboards
- DevOps capabilities: Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable in AWS environments
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence engineering and enterprise teams
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve observability using OpenTelemetry (metrics, traces, logs)
- Optimise New Relic (or equivalent) focusing on ingestion, cost efficiency, and signal quality
- Review and refactor existing instrumentation to reduce noise, remove unused signals, and address high-cardinality issues
- Improve and maintain OTEL modules written in Go (Golang)
- Collaborate with Platform/DevOps teams on CI/CD, infrastructure, and runtime observability
- Support incident response and post-incident analysis with structured improvements
- Help define and embed clear observability standards across services
- Translate product direction and enterprise requirements into scalable technical solutions
Description
We are a collaborative team partnered with a globally recognised Fortune 500 organization, seeking to hire 2 Contract Senior Engineers (Observability) for a 6-month project starting on March 2nd. This role offers a flexible hybrid work pattern and is focused on redefining observability standards across engineering. We aim to stabilise existing systems, improve signal quality, and reduce observability platform costs while fostering strong stakeholder engagement within engineering teams.
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