Senior C++ Engineer with Observability

We are looking for a Senior C++ Engineer with Observability expertise to spearhead our observability implementation. This position blends practical engineering with technical leadership, guaranteeing that customer experience, system reliability, and operational insight remain measurable and integrated across the entire software development lifecycle. The perfect candidate will offer substantial experience in low-latency trading, market data, or similar high-performance distributed systems, paired with a solid C++ foundation and a proven history of delivering production monitoring, telemetry, and operational tooling at scale.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead observability implementation throughout the software development lifecycle
• Guarantee that customer experience, system reliability, and operational insight stay measurable and integrated
• Construct and maintain large-scale monitoring, observability, or control platforms
• Set standards and promote the adoption of observability best practices
• Collaborate effectively with development teams to deliver telemetry and operational tooling
• Deploy metrics, tracing, logging, profiling, and telemetry pipelines
• Advance customer-experience measurement for latency-sensitive market data systems
• Guide engineering teams toward shared observability goals

Requirements

• More than 5 years of experience in observability engineering, covering metrics, tracing, and logging
• Strong skills in profiling and telemetry pipelines
• Knowledge of customer-experience measurement for latency-sensitive market data systems
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale monitoring, observability, or control platforms
• Strong C++ engineering skills along with the capacity to collaborate effectively with development teams
• Expertise in OpenTelemetry, eBPF, and GitOps
• Capability in API-driven automation and CI/CD-integrated observability practices
• Knowledge of cloud-native, Kubernetes, and distributed systems architectures
• Demonstrated ability to guide engineering teams and define standards
• English proficiency at B2 level or above

Nice to have

• Experience in trading or market-making
• Knowledge of exchange connectivity
• Understanding 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 and 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

EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.