Job Description
Overview
Principal Platform Engineer, Reliability and Observability
Ncounter is hiring a senior Platform Engineer to own reliability and observability across a mission-critical trading platform. This is a deeply technical role focused on keeping complex, distributed systems stable, measurable, and predictable under real-time load. You will work directly on shared platform services that underpin trading and research workloads, where latency, partial failure, and blind spots in monitoring are not tolerated.
Observability is a core engineering concern here, not a bolt-on toolset. You will design and operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting pipelines that ingest high-volume telemetry, expose system behaviour under stress, and materially reduce operational risk. The role blends production engineering, platform tooling, automation, and reliability-led architecture, with direct ownership of systems running at scale.