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Principal Engineer - Edge Delivery & Observability

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted February 18, 2026
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The FT is looking for a Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor) to lead our Edge Delivery & Observability work. The role involves steering the Edge Delivery & Observability team and the API Gateway team, which are part of the Infrastructure & Operations Group. The teams look after cloud edge capabilities like CDNs, DNS etc, along with the monitoring and observability infrastructure at the FT.

Job Responsibility

  • Provide technical direction and support to teams across the group
  • Lead one or two feature teams to deliver quality tooling and products that reduce developer toil
  • Work closely with the people manager within the teams
  • Engage with other disciplines (e.g.delivery, product management) and teams across FT to make sure we are all working together effectively
  • Model and help set and reinforce our inclusive, respectful, multidisciplinary and open culture
  • Help continuously improve our technology, process and culture, take ownership of problems and see solutions through to completion
  • Manage and maintain strong relationships with vendors
  • Gain a deep understanding of the FT as a business and use that knowledge to communicate clearly with your peers, reports, and senior management
  • Actively collaborate across teams both within and outside of I&O
  • Contribute to company-wide processes, frameworks, and guidelines

Requirements

  • Experience technically leading teams and projects
  • Effective communicator, able to break down tasks as well as giving/receiving constructive feedback
  • Customer focused, with a strong focus on building and running reliable, stable and secure systems
  • Enthusiastic about operability & monitoring of systems and Cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with AWS, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloudflare, Route53, Python and Go (or equivalent tools) is beneficial

What we offer

  • A competitive bonus incentive scheme
  • Extensive learning and development opportunities including 10% time, tech talks, internal conferences and opportunities to attend external conferences and training
  • 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 2 years’ service
  • Generous parental leave
  • Very competitive pension plan, with the company doubling your contribution
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