Global Observability Team Lead

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai.

Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management.

By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.

We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products.

Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

We are looking for a Head of Observability Platform to lead observability as a business-critical platform capability across our globally distributed trading environment.

Observability at Optiver has evolved across multiple teams, regions, systems, and platforms.

We have a capable but heterogeneous foundation across logs, metrics, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, alerting, and production diagnostics.

We have formed a dedicated team to advance observability as a standalone platform capability: globally consistent, easy to adopt, reliable at scale, and deeply embedded in how Optiver builds, operates, diagnoses, and improves production systems.

As Head of Observability Platform, you will own the strategy, architecture, operating model, adoption approach, and roadmap for Optiver’s shared observability platform.

The platform enables engineers, operators, trading teams, automated systems, and future agent-based workflows to collect, query, understand, and act on metrics, logs, traces, events, alerts, and health signals across Optiver’s global environment.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role.

You will not be the primary implementer of every system, but you will need the depth to challenge designs, guide architectural trade-offs, unblock engineers, and make high-quality decisions.