Reliability Engineering, Observability

Wise

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
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$65,000–$85,000 / yr
Posted
180 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $75k
$46k most similar roles pay here $244k

This role pays less than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $148,740–$214,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $75k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Wise

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a global technology company specializing in international money transfers and multi-currency accounts, offering transparent low-cost foreign exchange for individuals and businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & International Payments

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TL;DR · Reliability Engineering, Observability

Reliability Engineering - Observability is a Software Engineer role within the Observability team at Wise. The successful candidate will manage a vast observability estate covering metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and profiles to ensure a standardized experience for hundreds of product services. Day-to-day responsibilities include owning centralized OpenTelemetry configurations, evolving tooling built on open-source projects like Grafana and Elasticsearch, and implementing automation to maintain high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure. The role requires proficiency in Java, Go, or Python with a focus on writing clean code. Candidates should possess experience with the LGTM or ELK stack and an understanding of application instrumentation, microservices, and distributed environments. This position focuses on solving technical challenges related to telemetry data management and providing robust, secure, and cost-efficient observability tools for internal engineering teams.

What you'll do

  • Own the centralized OpenTelemetry configuration used by hundreds of product services to ensure standardized telemetry.
  • Develop and evolve observability tooling built on open-source projects like Grafana and Elasticsearch.
  • Manage a large-scale estate covering metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and profiling.
  • Implement automation and efficiencies to maintain reliability for mission-critical services.
  • Write clean, maintainable code in Java, Go, or Python to support the observability platform.
  • Ensure the observability infrastructure remains robust, secure, and cost-efficient.
  • Improve the developer experience by providing tools that help engineers resolve issues quickly.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in software engineering using Java, Go, or Python.
  • Ability to write clean and maintainable code.
  • Experience with observability tools such as the LGTM or ELK stack.
  • Understanding of application instrumentation via OpenTelemetry.
  • Knowledge of microservices and how changes propagate through distributed environments.
  • Understanding of high-scale, mission-critical infrastructure and availability requirements.
  • A growth mindset focused on building developer-friendly tools at the intersection of software and systems.

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