Observability Engineer

Your opportunity:

At Mollie, we’re on a mission to make payments and money management effortless for every business in Europe.We started 20 years ago when we launched a more direct, affordable way for companies to get paid. That provided an alternative to the frustrating, overpriced solutions that banks offered at the time.

Today, we serve more than 250,000 businesses across Europe with an all-in-one solution that simplifies payments and money management. And we’re a 850-strong team of product, finance, support, commerce, and engineering specialists working across Europe – from Lisbon to London.

Join our dynamic Developer Enablement domain at Mollie as an Observability Engineer, where you'll play a pivotal role in enhancing our monitoring systems, ensuring operational excellence across our platforms. Our mission is to provide deep insights into our services' health, enabling engineers to diagnose issues, and optimising platform usage to deliver an unparalleled service experience to our customers.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain our observability tools and platforms, focusing on high-quality, scalable solutions.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate observability practices into the development lifecycle, enhancing system transparency and reliability.

• Lead the creation and adoption of standardized observability frameworks to ensure consistency and efficiency across the organization.

• Design, implement, and refine data pipelines that collect, aggregate, and normalize telemetry data from diverse sources.

• Advocate for best practices in code instrumentation, ensuring high-quality data collection for insightful monitoring and analysis.

• Contribute to the development of a comprehensive service inventory, tracking changes and impacts to guide operational decisions.

• Engage in continuous learning and sharing of knowledge within the team, promoting a culture of innovation and excellence in observability.

Who You Are:

• Have a solid background in software engineering, with a specific passion for observability and monitoring of distributed systems.

• Experience with at least one major cloud-based provider (Bonus points: Google Cloud)

• Experience in tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, and Sentry, and development practices using Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform.

• Know your way around Linux systems and the shell

• Demonstrated experience in developing or adopting libraries for seamless integration with observability tools.

• Good coding skills in languages relevant to our stack (e.g., PHP, Java, Python, Go).

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a creative approach to tackling complex challenges.

• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working in a hybrid work environment to foster team synergy and influence without authority.

• Bonus: Prior experience with Data Analytics and Data Pipelines to collect and derive insights from observability data. 

  
  

  Please apply with your CV in English

  Kindly note that relocation support is not offered for candidates outside of Europe for this role.