Optiver
Global Observability Team Lead
Chicago, Illinois, United States +2 · Full-time · Posted May 13, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sydney, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship where necessary.
About the job
Lead the strategy, architecture, and adoption of Optiver’s global observability platform to improve production diagnosis, resilience, and developer and operator experience.
What you'll do
- Set the platform’s global strategy, architecture, operating model, and roadmap.
- Lead and develop a globally distributed engineering team and drive adoption across engineering teams.
- Guide observability standards and technical direction across telemetry, storage, querying, visualization, alerting, and platform reliability.
What they ask for
- Proven experience leading engineering, SRE, platform, infrastructure, or observability teams in a complex technical environment.
- Experience owning or shaping a platform capability, including strategy, roadmap, architecture, operating model, adoption, governance, and measurable outcomes.
- Deep understanding of modern observability practices and experience designing or leading large-scale observability platforms.
- Strong technical judgement, people leadership, delivery discipline, and ability to influence across engineering teams.
AI focus
The platform should support future agent-based workflows; no specific AI development work is stated.
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