Observability Platform Engineer (DevOps)

About the role

Revolut is seeking an Observability Platform Engineer to design and build a platform that continuously monitors thousands of applications, databases, and systems. The role focuses on delivering logging, metrics, and tracing solutions that enable engineering teams to optimise performance, resolve incidents quickly, and streamline onboarding and sunsetting of services.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and assemble scalable, resilient observability solutions across logs, metrics and traces, using existing market tools or custom technologies.
• Build robust APIs and data pipelines to ingest, process and expose observability data to product teams.
• Collaborate with product teams to understand monitoring needs and integrate solutions for alerting and debugging.
• Optimise observability infrastructure for performance, accuracy, cost‑effectiveness and user experience.
• Develop tooling to automate onboarding and sunsetting of components on the observability platform.
• Contribute to the strategic roadmap, identifying new features and improvements.

Required profile

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years focused on building and maintaining observability platforms or highly distributed systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting and incident‑response best practices.
• Practical understanding of distributed systems and their observability challenges.

Required skills

• Monitoring and alerting concepts.
• Design and implementation of APIs.
• Data pipeline development for high‑throughput, real‑time ingestion.
• Experience with distributed system observability.