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# Lead C++ Observability Engineer

- **Company:** London Stock Exchange Group
- **Location:** St. Louis, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Kubernetes, Api Design, Dynatrace
- **Published:** July 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=54875e04a7f34aec

## About the Role

* Base technical proficiency in C++ in order to engage with full-time developers.
 * Deep experience with observability engineering such as distributed tracing, and real-time metrics pipelines.
 * Excellent leadership skills: able to coach teams, influence engineering culture, and drive cross-team alignment.
 * Strong analytical mindset for diagnosing complex distributed-system behaviours and customer impact.
 * Effective communicator with the ability to simplify system performance concepts for broader stakeholders.

Preferred:

 * Strong background in SLI/SLO design, especially for latency-sensitive or market data systems
 * Ability to design and deliver end-to-end telemetry solutions across multiple teams and services
 * Skilled in cloud-native, containerized, and Kubernetes environments
 * Proficiency with API- and GitOps-based workflows, config-as-code, and automated telemetry promotion.
 * Experience with eBPF diagnostic capabilities like tracing, network performance and app profiling.

## Description

The Lead Observability Engineer drives the strategy, design, and hands-on implementation of observability across all Real-Time Collections squads. The role focuses on measuring and optimising customer experience of exchange data, embedding observability as a core engineering practice within applications and builds, and providing guidance and expert consultancy throughout the development lifecycle., * Lead the implementation of the Real-Time Unified Observability roadmap for Real-Time Collections and Contributions. Laser-focused on ensuring customer experience is measurable, visible, and continuously improved.

 * Hands on C++ Development in a low-latency environment
 * Work hands-on with Collections squads to embed "Observability as a Practice" throughout the software development lifecycle. Support and encourage engineers to observe their software throughout Dev, Test, PPE and Prod.
 * Guide teams in building customer-centric SLIs and insight dashboards that reflect timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and stability of market data.
 * Establish repeatable GitOps/API-driven workflows for observability assets within build pipelines, ensuring consistent deployment and versioning.
 * Influence platform architecture and reliability decisions across Collections, ensuring observability considerations are baked into design early.


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