Software Engineer Observability Platform

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 70+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About The Role: Software Engineer Observability Platform

Our Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep Revolut moving. From the infrastructure behind our innovative app to the features used by millions of people around the world, they bring sharp thinking, speed, and a focus on meaningful impact to everything they do.

We're looking for an Observability Platform Engineer to create a platform that continuously monitors thousands of applications, databases, and other systems. You'll be delivering a product solution our engineering teams will rely on for crucial information about logging, metrics, and tracing.

Your work will ensure applications can be continuously optimised, incidents are quickly solved, and friction is reduced in onboarding, normal usage, and sunsetting.

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What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, implementing, and assembling scalable and resilient observability solutions across logs, metrics, and traces, leveraging existing market solutions or technologies from scratch
• Building robust APIs and data pipelines to ingest, process, and expose observability data to product teams
• Collaborating closely with product teams to understand their observability needs and integrate solutions that empower them to monitor, alert, and debug their components effectively
• Optimising the observability infrastructure for performance, accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and an exceptional user experience
• Developing and maintaining tooling to automate the onboarding/sunsetting of components to the observability platform and streamline data collection
• Contributing to the strategic roadmap of the observability platform, identifying and implementing new features and improvements

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 3+ years focused on building and maintaining observability platforms or highly distributed systems
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident response best practices
• Expertise in designing and implementing APIs and data pipelines for high-throughput, real-time data ingestion
• A practical understanding of distributed systems and their unique observability challenges
• Hands-on experience with core observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, etc.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform)
• Proficiency in Python as your primary engineering language

Nice to have

• Previous experience in a DevOps, SRE, or developer experience role
• Experience with multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their native observability services
• Contributions to open-source observability projects
• A track record of prototyping and sketching new solutions to complex problems

Key skills/competency

• Observability platform design
• Distributed systems monitoring
• API development
• Data pipeline engineering
• Prometheus & Grafana
• Kubernetes & Docker
• Python programming
• Incident response
• Infrastructure as Code
• Performance optimization