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Senior SRE Engineer (Observability Focus)

1 month ago
Bulgaria, Poland, Cyprus
Full-time
Senior
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Software Development
Ansible Argo CD AWS Bash Elasticsearch Fluentd GitOps Grafana Helm Java JavaScript Kafka Kubernetes OpenSearch OpenTelemetry Prometheus Python Terraform TypeScript
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Capital.com

Capital.com

Capital.com is a leading fintech company providing online trading services through a smart investment app, offering access to 3700+ global markets with AI-powered features for secure and efficient trading.

Capital Markets
251-1K
Founded 2016
$25M raised
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Description

  • Own the full observability stack for metrics, logs, and traces, from pipeline design through day-2 operations.
  • Architect and operate the VictoriaMetrics cluster topology, including scraping, remote write, alerting rules, and cardinality control.
  • Operate OpenSearch clusters, including index lifecycle management, hot-warm-cold architecture, shard tuning, and ingest pipelines.
  • Build and maintain OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines and instrument services across Java, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript stacks.
  • Run Kafka as the telemetry transport layer, including topic design, partition strategy, lag monitoring, and throughput tuning.
  • Manage log shipping infrastructure with Fluent Bit, Vector, or Fluentd and define structured logging standards across services.
  • Build Grafana dashboards and alerting that are clear, actionable, and useful for engineering teams.
  • Improve sampling, batching, and context propagation strategies across distributed services.
  • Participate in incident response, post-mortems, and reliability improvements driven by observability signals.
  • Mentor engineers on observability practices, tooling, and structured logging standards.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
  • At least 2 years of experience focused on observability tooling at production scale.
  • Deep hands-on experience with VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus, including MetricsQL/PromQL, exporters, service discovery, remote write, downsampling, and retention management.
  • Solid OpenSearch or Elasticsearch experience, including cluster operations, Query DSL, ISM policies, and ingest pipeline design.
  • Production experience with OpenTelemetry, including Collector configuration, OTLP, context propagation, and instrumentation across multiple languages.
  • Strong Kafka experience, including producer/consumer patterns, consumer group management, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and JMX-based monitoring.
  • Experience with Strimzi is a plus for running Kafka on Kubernetes.
  • Proficiency with log shippers such as Fluent Bit, Vector, or Fluentd and structured log parsing/normalization.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD/GitOps, Terraform, and Ansible.
  • Comfort in a hybrid AWS and on-prem environment, with solid networking knowledge as it applies to scraping and shipping pipelines.
  • Scripting ability in Bash or Python for automation and tooling.
  • Strong communication skills and English proficiency.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Flexible work-life harmony with a hybrid work setup.
  • Generous annual leave.
  • Employee referral program.
  • Comprehensive health and pension benefits, including medical insurance.
  • 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world, with some restrictions.
  • Two additional paid volunteer days each year.

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