Senior Real-Time Observability Engineer

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

We are seeking a Senior Real-Time Observability Engineer to build and evolve the systems that provide unified visibility into a distributed, latency-sensitive Real-Time platform, working across telemetry pipelines, synthetic monitoring, and GitOps-driven observability infrastructure.

We’re launching a Double Referral Bonus Campaign for this role in EPAM Romania open positions, covering candidates referred and hired between September 7th, 2026 and December 31st, 2026. The campaign applies to A3+ roles, for both B2B and permanent positions, across all skills and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain application components that aggregate, correlate, and present observability data from individual services into unified, end-to-end views of the Real-Time platform
• Implement customer-centric aggregation and hotspot detection algorithms that reflect timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and stability of market data across the Real-Time estate
• Develop and extend telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform, and route metrics, traces, and logs from distributed services into a coherent observability layer
• Design and build custom synthetic monitoring agents deployed across hundreds of global sites to continuously measure customer experience of Real-Time data from the edge
• Implement GitOps/API-driven workflows for observability assets to ensure consistent deployment, versioning, and promotion through build pipelines
• Collaborate with squads to integrate observability instrumentation into applications throughout Dev, Test, PPE, and Prod environments

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building data-pipeline applications, including metrics aggregation, distributed tracing, or real-time streaming
• Background in latency-sensitive or market data systems
• Proficiency in at least one systems-level language (C++, Go, or Rust) and one scripting/application language (Python, Java, or TypeScript)
• Experience in C++ to understand existing applications
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating custom synthetic monitoring solutions at scale, including lightweight agents distributed across geographically diverse sites
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry SDKs, collectors, and schema conventions for instrumentation and telemetry export
• Skills in cloud-native, containerized, and Kubernetes environments, including deploying and operating services at scale
• Proficiency with API- and GitOps-based workflows, config-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure
• Strong analytical mindset for modeling complex distributed-system behaviors and understanding customer impact, along with effective communication skills to work across squads and simplify system performance concepts for broader stakeholders

We offer

• We believe that the greatest strength of the company is its people. EPAM is fully committed to help its employees to reach their full potential and achieve their professional goals through continues learning. With this in mind, we would like to introduce to you few of the many opportunities and services which we believe will help you expand your current knowledge:
• Full access to cutting-edge tools and technologies
• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• All-around Social package: professional & soft skills training, medical & family care programs, sports
• Relocation opportunities
• Free English classes
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Continuous experience exchange with experts and professionals worldwide
• Friendly team and comfortable working environment
• Engineering, corporate, and social events within and outside the Company
• Flexible working schedule
• Opportunities for self-realization