Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Lead the SRE function for trading systems and set technical direction across reliability initiatives. Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call operations, automate deployments and incident response, establish monitoring and service objectives, manage infrastructure with Terraform, and apply security and compliance practices across deployments.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for reliability initiatives and mentor engineers
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues
- Participate in the weekly 12x7 on-call rotation and weekend deployments
- Perform root cause analysis and remediate production incidents
- Build tools to automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and incident responses
- Design monitoring and alerting systems and track SLIs and SLOs
- Use Infrastructure as Code to provision, scale, and manage platforms
- Collaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and cross-functional teams
- Implement security and compliance practices including SOC 2 and PCI DSS
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tools
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go
- Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or Helm
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- In-depth knowledge of cloud networking, security, and identity management
- Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar monitoring and observability tools
- Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills
- Ability to influence technical decisions and mentor junior engineers
- Trading industry experience
- Contributions to open-source projects
Benefits
- 401k plan with up to a 3.5% company match
- 23 days of annual paid time off
- Seven paid holidays
- 20 additional flex remote days annually
- Five company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays
- One service day annually
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance fully covered by NinjaTrader