Site Reliability Engineer | Trading Platform
A global trading firm is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join its Site Reliability Engineering team. This team is responsible for building automation, tooling and resilient systems that support the speed and reliability required by high-performance trading operations.
Your Future Role
You will help evolve and scale the firm's trading platform by applying SRE principles, improving system observability and reliability, and collaborating across engineering, quantitative and platform teams.
Responsibilities
- Build automation for operations, deployment, monitoring and incident response
- Apply SRE fundamentals such as SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to improve service health
- Design and document resilient, high-performance systems
- Evaluate and implement tools that balance performance, complexity and maintainability
- Own and enhance the observability stack (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts)
- Lead incident response and drive continuous improvement across infrastructure
- Collaborate with developers, quants and platform teams to evolve trading systems
Required Skills
- Hands-on experience in SRE or production engineering roles
- Strong Python skills for infrastructure tooling and automation
- Deep understanding of monitoring, incident response and system architecture
- Commitment to code clarity and reducing technical debt
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams
- Experience designing and delivering scalable systems in production environments
- Proficiency with Linux/Unix systems
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker or container orchestration
- Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible or other infrastructure automation tools
- Knowledge of low-latency trading environments, market data or exchange protocols is preferred
- Background in Go, Bash or other performance-focused system languages
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