Global Observability Team Lead

<div id="content" class="highlighter-context page view" data-inline-comments-target="true" data-testid="page-content-only"> <div class="_19itglyw _vchhusvi _r06hglyw _19pkidpf _2hwx1wug _otyr1epz _18u01wug _1bsb1osq"> <div id="main-content" class="wiki-content css-th923b e5xcnr80" data-testid="pageContentRendererTestId" data-vc="pageContentRendererTestId" data-test-appearance="full-width"> <div class="renderer-overrides"> <div class="css-3qfej8"> <div class="ak-renderer-wrapper is-full-width css-pw7jst"> <div class="css-m0gf8b"> <div class="ak-renderer-document"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7862"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">WHO WE ARE</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7874"><span class="fabric-text-color-mark" data-renderer-mark="true" data-text-custom-color="#292a2e">Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.</span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="8621"><span class="fabric-text-color-mark" data-renderer-mark="true" data-text-custom-color="#292a2e">Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.<br></span><strong data-renderer-mark="true"><br>WHAT YOU WILL DO</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="19" data-local-id="aff7e05b3ab8"></p> <div class="ak-renderer-sticky-safe-breakout-wrapper ak-renderer-flex-center-wrapper css-l5clsc"> <div class="ak-renderer-sticky-safe-breakout-inner fabric-editor-breakout-mark fabric-editor-block-mark css-ozd7xs" data-mode="wide" data-has-width="true" data-width="1800"> <div class="layout-section-container" data-local-id="54d68879f594"> <div data-layout-section="true" data-layout-columns="2"> <div class="css-12lwizq" data-layout-column="true" data-column-width="50"> <div class="css-pw7jst"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3765" data-local-id="63d7412323b7">We are looking for a <strong data-renderer-mark="true">Head of Observability Platform</strong> to lead observability as a business-critical platform capability across our globally distributed trading environment.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3936" data-local-id="2a9f38ce6604">Observability at Optiver has evolved across multiple teams, regions, systems, and platforms. We have a capable but heterogeneous foundation across logs, metrics, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, alerting, and production diagnostics. We have formed a dedicated team to advance observability as a standalone platform capability: globally consistent, easy to adopt, reliable at scale, and deeply embedded in how Optiver builds, operates, diagnoses, and improves production systems.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4416" data-local-id="a77853c84ccd">As Head of Observability Platform, you will own the strategy, architecture, operating model, adoption approach, and roadmap for Optiver’s shared observability platform. The platform enables engineers, operators, trading teams, automated systems, and future agent-based workflows to collect, query, understand, and act on metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, and health signals across Optiver’s global environment.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4833" data-local-id="0b79b90944b5">This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will not be the primary implementer of every system, but you will need the depth to challenge designs, guide architectural trade-offs, unblock engineers, and make high-quality decisions. You will lead a globally distributed team of engineers, partner closely with engineering stakeholders, and shape the standards, tooling, and practices that make observability effective at scale.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5266" data-local-id="c94c906afa23">Your goal is to transform observability into a globally consistent, regionally federated platform capability. Your work will improve production diagnosis, reduce operational risk, increase platform resilience, improve developer experience, and strengthen confidence in Optiver’s trading systems.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5563" data-local-id="7585a6dc7536">In this role, you will:</p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="73eca684-c604-4662-9968-3ecd3d1d56da" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5590" data-local-id="37c654302f8a">Set the global strategy, architecture, operating model, and roadmap for Optiver’s observability platform.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5699" data-local-id="7fab4c34e8c7">Lead and develop a globally distributed team of engineers, shaping team mandate, ways of working, and capability.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5816" data-local-id="234c29297f2a">Define what “good observability” means at Optiver, including expectations for telemetry quality, instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, service health, and diagnostic workflows.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="5997" data-local-id="e67dc41b1e86">Guide technical direction across telemetry collection, ingestion, storage, query, visualization, alerting, eventing, automation, and platform reliability.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="6155" data-local-id="be4bfb22763d">Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of the platform as adoption and telemetry volumes grow.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="6288" data-local-id="bde1675cfc80">Improve developer and operator experience through self-service workflows, golden paths, documentation, reusable patterns, APIs, dashboards, and investigation tooling.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="6458" data-local-id="b9477bf09c9f">Partner with engineering teams to drive adoption.</p> </li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="6530" data-local-id="dceccfb4e844"><br><strong>WHAT YOU'LL BRING&nbsp;<br></strong><br>You are an experienced technical leader who combines platform strategy, architectural judgement, people leadership, and delivery discipline. You are comfortable setting long-term direction while engaging deeply enough to challenge designs, make trade-offs, and help teams execute.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="6812" data-local-id="a4a03c587972">You understand that observability is not just a tooling problem. It is a platform, standards, reliability, developer experience, and adoption problem. You know how to build systems that engineers trust, operators can rely on, and the business can depend on during high-pressure production situations.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7114" data-local-id="b04fbb031ce3">You will bring:</p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="f4bed806-f536-4bf9-93af-23dc74b7827c" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7133" data-local-id="b0a7cbd017d9">Proven experience leading engineering, SRE, platform, infrastructure, or observability teams in a complex technical environment.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7265" data-local-id="89164a0ca02f">Experience owning or shaping a platform capability, including strategy, roadmap, architecture, operating model, adoption, governance, and measurable outcomes.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7427" data-local-id="225ec49939e7">Deep understanding of modern observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7622" data-local-id="1f7f97aa2ebf">Experience designing or leading large-scale observability platforms, including ingest pipelines, storage backends, query systems, retention models, visualization, alerting, resilience, and scale-related trade-offs.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7840" data-local-id="a52020638a90">Strong technical judgement, people leadership, and delivery discipline.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7915" data-local-id="7fe1abb919c2">Ability to influence without direct control across engineering teams.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="7988" data-local-id="1aad7e282ea0">A pragmatic approach to platform adoption, balancing global standardisation with regional autonomy, local production needs, and existing systems.<br><br></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="comment-container" class="_kqswstnw _lcxvglyw _c71l12am" data-testid="comment-container"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="reading-aids-portal-container" class="_1reoewfl _18m9ewfl _kqswh2mm _1pby1o8a" data-ssr-placeholder="nmqvg:z8NN7:qz-Pe:OP-5u-0"><span id="cc-reading-aids-highlight-spotlight" class="_tzy4idpf _kqswstnw _lcxvglyw _154i1ter _1ltv1rza _1bsb1rkg _4t3i1474" data-ssr-placeholder="7h_DJ:nmqvg:z8NN7:qz-Pe:OP-5u-0"></span></div> <div data-vc="eop-recommendations-wrapper"> <div data-hydration-shield="nhVSK:z8NN7:qz-Pe:OP-5u"> <div data-loadable-boundary-content="nhVSK:z8NN7:qz-Pe:OP-5u"> <div class="end-of-page-rec-wrapper" data-testid="end-page-rec-wrapper" data-vc="end-of-page-recommendation"> <div class="css-thp8s8" data-testid="test-rec" data-vc="end-of-page-recommendation-component"> <div class="_1e0c1txw _vchhusvi _4cvr1h6o _2lx2vrvc _1bah1yb4 _n3tdpxbi" data-testid="eop-compact-header"> <div class="_1e0c1txw _vchhusvi _gy1pu2gc _1p57u2gc _4cvr1h6o _2lx2vrvc"> <div id="Page1" class="idf-page"> <div class="idf-p"> <div class="idf-r"> <div id="Page2" class="idf-page"> <div class="idf-p"> <div class="idf-r"> <div class="idf-p"> <div class="idf-r"> <div class="idf-p"> <div class="idf-r"> <p><strong>WHAT YOU'LL GET:&nbsp;</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="idf-r"> <ul class="ak-ul" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12002">A performance-based bonus structure&nbsp;unmatched&nbsp;anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12204">The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding&nbsp;environment.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12294">Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12358">Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12409">Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12464">Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12532">Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.<br><br></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="Page3" class="idf-page"> <div class="idf-header"> <div class="idf-graphic"> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12628"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">DIVERSITY STATEMENT</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12649">Optiver is committed to <a class="_mizu1p6i _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu1r31 _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _syaz14q2 _ect41gqc _1a3b1r31 _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj14q2 _9oik1r31 _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l314q2 _1nrm1r31 _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h16c2 _1053w7te _1ienw7te _n0fxw7te _1vhvg3x0" href="https://optiver.com/diversity-statement/" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety"><u data-renderer-mark="true">diversity and inclusion</u></a>. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12829">Questions? 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