Lead Software Engineer - Observability and Monitoring

Lead Observability and Monitoring Engineer  

WHAT MAKES US, US   

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!   

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.  

If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!   

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US 

SimCorp's software runs investment operations for some of the largest financial institutions in the world. When it has a problem, our clients feel it quickly. This team makes sure we see those problems first, and increasingly understand them before they turn into incidents. 

You will work across a modern observability stack, Grafana, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry and Terraform, with real freedom to shape how it grows. This is genuine ownership of something the business depends on. 
 

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 

• Turning our Grafana dashboards and alerting into a surface engineers actually trust. 

• Building out our Azure telemetry, with KQL as the language that ties the stack together. 

• Setting the standard for how services are instrumented with OpenTelemetry, and helping product teams get it right. 

• Raising the quality of our alerting so that what fires actually matters. 

• Shaping service level objectives, error budgets, and the reliability conversations that come with them. 

• Owning your area end to end and setting a technical bar the rest of the team grows toward. 

 WHAT WE VALUE  

Our stack is broad and we do not expect one person to have done all of it. We are looking for real depth in Grafana and Azure observability, strong fundamentals across the rest, and the judgement to own a problem and work out the parts you have not met yet. 

You will fit well if you bring: 

Core strengths 

• Several years in observability, site reliability, or platform engineering, delivering independently rather than waiting for direction. 

• Deep Grafana experience across dashboards and multiple data sources. 

• Strong Azure monitoring, especially Log Analytics and KQL. 

• Comfort with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform. 

• Sound instincts for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting. 

A real advantage 

• OpenTelemetry in practice, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD. 

Things we will help you grow into 

• The wider Azure and Microsoft Fabric data stack, modern incident and SLO tooling, and anomaly detection. 

We like people who are comfortable with ambiguity, who improve the things around them, and who make the engineers next to them better. 

BENEFITS  

• Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose, you can work remotely the other days. Of course, you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.  

• Growth and Innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.  

• Self-Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.  

• Inclusive and diverse company culture  

• Work-life balance – We believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of ourselves, both in private life and as colleagues in the workplace  

• Empowerment – We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will be involved in shaping our work processes  

NEXT STEPS  

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.  

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.     

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.  

WHO WE ARE  

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.    

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.   

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.   

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