Site Reliability Engineer

Role overview Improve the reliability, performance, and observability of a platform that serves real-time and historical financial market data through APIs. This midlevel-to-senior individual contributor role spans large-scale data processing, customer and billing services, and query systems, while also helping engineering teams build and operate software reliably. The position includes on-call work and incident leadership.

Responsibilities - Own uptime targets and service-level indicators and objectives across APIs and platform services. - Build observability for logs, metrics, and traces, and establish operational practices that help teams ship safely. - Design and operate highly available deployment and containerization approaches. - Profile Python services and improve throughput, latency, and operating cost. - Diagnose production issues, including investigation at the Linux operating-system level. - Improve deployment and CI/CD workflows; participate in on-call response, lead incidents, and conduct follow-up reviews. - Identify reliability problems independently and carry improvements from proposal to completion.

Requirements - Professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or backend engineering; work in trading, technology, or a growing startup is relevant. - Strong Python development and performance optimization skills. - Practical experience with logging, metrics, and tracing systems. - Experience with containers and high-availability deployment patterns. - Confidence using Linux debugging and profiling tools such as strace, perf, eBPF, ss, or gdb. - Evidence of measurable impact, along with clear communication and the ability to work effectively in a remote team.

Nice to have Experience with alerting and incident response, infrastructure as code or configuration management, HTTP benchmarking, load testing, capacity planning, database design or query optimization, or financial data and algorithmic trading.

Benefits and work setup The role is fully remote, with teammates in multiple countries and compensation paid in local currency. Benefits include health, dental, disability, and life insurance, plus a 401(k) match for full-time employees. The stated base salary range is $150,000–$215,000, benchmarked to top-tier locations; additional compensation may include bonus, commission, or equity depending on the role.