site reliability engineer

Capital.com is a leading trading platform that expands globally with award-winning products recognized for cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. The company builds out its observability practice and seeks a senior engineer to own the telemetry stack end to end within a hybrid AWS and on-premise environment.

• Own the full observability stack including metrics, logs, and traces from pipeline design to day-2 operations;
• Architect and run VictoriaMetrics cluster topology including scraping, remote write configuration, 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 JS/TS stacks;
• Run Kafka as the telemetry transport layer including topic design, partition strategy, and throughput tuning;
• Manage log shipping infrastructure and define structured logging standards and field normalization;
• Build actionable Grafana dashboards and alerting systems;
• Collaborate with platform and application teams to improve sampling strategies, batching, and context propagation;
• Contribute to incident response, post-mortems, and reliability improvements;
• Mentor engineers on observability practices, tooling, and structured logging standards.

• 6+ Years in a DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering role with at least 2 years focused on observability at production scale;
• Deep hands-on experience with VictoriaMetrics or Prometheus including MetricsQL/PromQL and retention management;
• Solid OpenSearch or Elasticsearch skills including cluster operations, Query DSL, and ISM policies;
• Production experience with OpenTelemetry including Collector configuration, OTLP, and instrumentation;
• Strong Kafka skills including producer/consumer patterns, consumer group management, and JMX-based monitoring;
• Proficiency with log shippers like Fluent Bit, Vector, or Fluentd and structured log parsing;
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitOps, and Terraform or Ansible;
• Experience with hybrid AWS and on-prem environments and networking for scraping and shipping pipelines;
• Scripting ability in Bash or Python;
• Strong communication skills to explain observability tradeoffs;
• English proficiency;
• Nice to have: Strimzi experience.

• Competitive salary;
• Comprehensive health and pension benefits;
• Generous annual leave policy;
• Employee referral program;
• Workation policy allowing 30 days of remote work per year from anywhere;
• Two paid volunteer days per year.