Observability Platform Engineer (SRE Focus)

The Mission:

We're building a world-class Observability function, and we're looking for someone who lives for uptime, meaningful alerts, and elegant dashboards. If you've ever been on-call, silenced a noisy monitor, or traced a ghost bug across microservices outside core hour - we want to hear from you!

This isn't a generic "Platform Engineer" role. You'll belaser-focusedonobservability, reliability, and developer empowerment, working closely with teams to make sure we don't just know when things break - butwhy.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and scalingon-call systemsthat engineers don't dread being part of.
• Building outDatadog monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and log pipelinesfor our Kubernetes-based environments.
• Defining and managingSLOs, SLIs, anderror budgets- and helping teams stick to them.
• Creatingscorecardsandsoftware catalogsso engineers know what's healthy, what's broken, and who owns what.
• Training and enabling dev teams to own their ownobservability,alerts, andincident response.
• Introducingchaos engineering practices(yes, we want to break things on purpose).
• Driving a culture of reliability, withincident reviews, shared learnings, and transparency.

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Haveproduction experiencewith observability tools (especiallyDatadog) in cloud-native environments.
• Have set upmonitoring and alertingacross Kubernetes services.
• Have built or scaledon-call systemsin startups or large-scale environments.
• Know how to reducealert fatigueand love a goodMTTRchart.
• Have experience withinfrastructure as code(Terraform preferred).
• Believe that great developer experience includesclear visibility and ownership.
• Are curious about - or already practicing -chaos engineering.

Bonus Points

• Experience withOpenTelemetry,Fluent Bit, or similar.
• Familiarity withservice catalog tooling(e.g., Backstage).
• Comfortable running or facilitatinggame daysorfailure drills.
• Prior involvement in setting upscorecardsfor service health.

What This Role Isn't

• This isnota traditional platform or infra role.
• You won't be spending your days tweaking CI/CD pipelines or setting up VPCs.
• We're looking for someone obsessed withhow systems behavein production - not just how they're deployed.

The Stack

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, Lambda, etc.)
• Observability: Datadog, OpenTelemetry
• Infra as Code: Terraform
• Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS)
• Logging: Fluent Bit, FireLens
• Catalogs/Scorecards: Backstage (or custom)

Apply Now

If this sounds like your kind of role, we'd love to hear from you.

Drop us a message with yourCVand a note about thecoolest monitoring setuporincident resolutionyou've ever worked on.

Why join YouLend?

• Award-Winning Workplace:YouLend has been recognised as one of the "Best Places to Work 2024 & 2025" by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
• Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a "Top 250 Fintech Worldwide" company by CNBC.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Stock Options
• Private Medical insurance via Vitality
• EAP with Health Assured
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
• Free Gym in office building in Holborn
• Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
• Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
• Monthly in office Masseuse
• Team and Company Socials
• Football Power League / Squash Club

At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.