We're looking for a midlevel or senior IC to join our Backend Engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer. You'll own the uptime, performance, and observability of our platform, and help set the standard for how the rest of engineering builds, ships, and monitors softwareThe range of problems is wide. You'll work on petabyte-scale data processing, SaaS problems like customer management and billing, and the query systems that power our APIs.
Unlike most finance firms, we're open about our tech and how we build itOwn uptime, SLAs, and SLOs across our API and platform servicesSet reliability and operational best practices for other developers without slowing them downBuild and maintain observability across logging, metrics, and tracingDesign and run high-availability deployment and containerization strategiesProfile and optimize Python applications for throughput, latency, and costDebug production issues down to the OS level using tools like strace, perf, eBPF, ss, and gdbImprove deployment and CI/CD workflowsJoin the on-call rotation, lead incident response,



and run post-incident reviewsFind what needs fixing on your own, then take projects from idea to completionBenefits401kHealth and dental insuranceUnlimited PTOExperience with containerization and high availability deployment (e.g. Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, k3s) Database schema design and query optimization skills are nice to have Familiarity with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform) is also helpful Good communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading Hands-on experience with observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Logstash, Loki, Vector) Strong proficiency in Python, including application development and performance optimization Bonus if you've done HTTP benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning

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