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Principal Engineer in Chelmsford (CM3) | Synergetic Recruitment Group Limited Search Search These jobs were popular with other job seekers Automation Engineer Morson Edge Heybridge, Maldon (CM9), CM9 Market related 3 weeks ago Principal Engineer TALENT INTERNATIONAL UK LTD City of London (EC4V), EC4V £550.00 - £600.00 per day 4 days ago Senior Applications Engineering Manager ARM Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Competitive 1 month ago Lead Azure Platform Engineer Canada Life UK Potters Bar (EN6), EN6 5BA Competitive 5 days ago Senior Linux Engineer Platform Recruitment Limited Cambridge (CB1) From £80,000 to £85,000 per annum Great benefits 3 weeks ago Lead Systems Engineer National Physical Laboratory Teddington, London (TW11) Competitive + Benefits 1 week ago Sensor Fusion Software Lead Saab UK Bedford (MK40) Negotiable 4 days ago Senior Software Engineer C++/ Rust Platform Recruitment Limited Cambridge (CB1) Up to £200,000 per annum 1 month ago Head of Engineering Leo Technology London £100000 - £120000 per annum 1 week ago Control Systems Integration Engineer Adsyst Woodford Green (IG8), IG8 8HD £45,000 - £70,000 per annum 1 week ago Automation Engineer Morson Edge Heybridge, Maldon (CM9), CM9 Market related 3 weeks ago Principal Engineer TALENT INTERNATIONAL UK LTD City of London (EC4V), EC4V £550.00 - £600.00 per day 4 days ago Senior Applications Engineering Manager ARM Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Competitive 1 month ago Lead Azure Platform Engineer Canada Life UK Potters Bar (EN6), EN6 5BA Competitive 5 days ago Senior Linux Engineer Platform Recruitment Limited Cambridge (CB1) From £80,000 to £85,000 per annum Great benefits 3 weeks ago Lead Systems Engineer National Physical Laboratory Teddington, London (TW11) Competitive + Benefits 1 week ago Sensor Fusion Software Lead Saab UK Bedford (MK40) Negotiable 4 days ago Senior Software Engineer C++/ Rust Platform Recruitment Limited Cambridge (CB1) Up to £200,000 per annum 1 month ago Head of Engineering Leo Technology London £100000 - £120000 per annum 1 week ago Control Systems Integration Engineer Adsyst Woodford Green (IG8), IG8 8HD £45,000 - £70,000 per annum 1 week ago Principal Engineer Synergetic Recruitment Group Limited Chelmsford (CM3) Permanent Published: 1 week ago From £150,000 to £180,000 per annum Principal Engineer Synergetic Recruitment Group Limited Principal Software Engineer Location: Cambridge Our client is scaling a large, distributed cloud platform and is looking for a Principal Engineer to act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) across observability and cloud infrastructure. You’ll be working at serious scale managing thousands of Kubernetes nodes, handling tens of terabytes of logs daily, and supporting millions of real-time metrics across a highly distributed environment. The Role This is a senior, hands-on role where you will own the technical direction and standards of the observability ecosystem. As the SME, you’ll define best practice, guide architectural decisions, and act as the go-to expert across engineering teams, ensuring scalable, cost-efficient, and high-performance systems. Key Responsibilities Act as the SME for observability and cloud infrastructure across the organisation Lead architecture across metrics, logs, and tracing systems Design and optimise high-throughput data pipelines and storage layers Implement strategies such as sampling, aggregation, and down-sampling Extend and enhance open-source observability tools at scale Partner with engineering teams to standardise tooling and improve adoption Drive reliability, scalability, and cost optimisation across the platform Define and promote best practices aligned with OpenTelemetry and modern observability standards Mentor engineers and elevate engineering quality across teams Tech Environment Kubernetes at scale (thousands of nodes) High-volume telemetry (hundreds of thousands of events per second) Observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ELK/OpenSearch, ClickHouse Multi-cloud (AWS, GCP) Infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines What We’re Looking For 15+ years building and scaling distributed systems Strong hands-on experience with Golang (plus Python or Shell) Deep expertise in observability at scale Strong Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure experience Proven ability to design systems for performance, scale, and cost efficiency Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio/Envoy) Ability to operate as a technical authority and trusted advisor across teams Nice to Have Open-source or CNCF contributions Experience using AI tools to improve engineering efficiency Why Join Be the go-to expert shaping a large-scale observability platform Work on complex, high-impact infrastructure challenges Strong ownership and influence at Principal level Similar Principal Engineer Jobs Popular with Other Job Seekers Automation Engineer Morson Edge Heybridge, Maldon (CM9), CM9 Market related 3 weeks ago Principal Engineer TALENT INTERNATIONAL UK LTD City of London (EC4V), EC4V £550.00 - £600.00 per day 4 days ago Senior Applications Engineering Manager ARM Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Competitive 1 month ago Lead Azure Platform Engineer Canada Life UK Potters Bar (EN6), EN6 5BA Competitive 5 days ago Senior Linux Engineer Platform Recruitment Limited Cambridge (CB1) From £80,000 to £85,000 per annum Great benefits 3 weeks ago Lead Systems Engineer National Physical Laboratory Teddington, London (TW11) Competitive + Benefits 1 week ago Sensor Fusion Software Lead Saab UK Bedford (MK40) Negotiable 4 days ago Senior Software Engineer C++/ Rust Platform Recruitment Limited Cambridge (CB1) Up to £200,000 per annum 1 month ago Head of Engineering Leo Technology London £100000 - £120000 per annum 1 week ago Control Systems Integration Engineer Adsyst Woodford Green (IG8), IG8 8HD £45,000 - £70,000 per annum 1 week ago Principal Engineer jobs Principal Engineer jobs in Chelmsford Engineering jobs Engineering jobs in Chelmsford Management jobs Management jobs in Chelmsford Jobs in Chelmsford Engineer jobs Project Engineer jobs Senior Principal Engineer jobs Principal Engineer Net jobs Principal Electrical Engineer jobs Principal Structural Engineer jobs Principle Engineer jobs Principal Safety Engineer jobs Engineering Consultant jobs Manager Of Engineering jobs Projects Engineer jobs Chief Engineer jobs Principal Design Engineer jobs Principal Civil Engineer jobs Associate Principal Engineer jobs Head Engineer jobs Get hired. 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