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Site Reliability Engineer

 
  • Full Time
  • Chicago

Website Trading Technologies

Multi-asset platform for capital markets

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position is a software development-oriented role, focusing heavily on coding, automation, and ensuring the stability and reliability of our global platform. The ideal candidate will primarily be a skilled software developer capable of participating in on-call rotations. The SRE team develops sophisticated telemetry and automation tools, proactively monitoring platform health and executing automated corrective actions. As guardians of the production environment, the SRE team leverages advanced telemetry to anticipate and mitigate issues, ensuring continuous platform stability. Competitive salary range $140-$160k per year. 

 

What Will You Be Involved With?
  • Develop and maintain advanced telemetry and automation tools for monitoring and managing global platform health.
  • Actively participate in on-call rotations, swiftly diagnosing and resolving system issues and escalations from the customer support team (this is not a customer facing role).
  • Implement automated solutions for incident response, system optimization, and reliability improvement.
  • Proactively identify potential system stability risks and implement preventive measures.

 

What Will You Bring to the Table?

Software Development:
  • 5+ years of professional Python development experience.
  • Strong grasp of Python object-oriented programming concepts and inheritance.
  • Experience developing multi-threaded Python applications.
  • 2+ years of experience using Terraform, with proficiency in creating modules and submodules from scratch.
  • Proficiency or willingness to learn Golang.

Operating Systems:
  • 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems.
  • Strong understanding of monitoring critical system health parameters.
  • Thorough knowledge of Linux filesystem structures and management.

Cloud:
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, EKS, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, and SQS.
  • AWS Associate-level certification or higher preferred.

Networking:
  • Basic understanding of network protocols:
    • TCP/IP
    • DNS
    • HTTP
    • Load balancing concepts

Additional Qualifications (Preferred):
  • Familiarity with trading systems and low-latency environments is advantageous but not required.

 

What We Bring to the Table

Compensation: $130,000 – $150,000 / year


Competitive Benefits & Perks
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.
  • Health & Financial Security:
    • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
    • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
    • 401(k) retirement plan
    • Pre-tax transit and parking benefits
  • Time Off & Flexibility:
    • Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture.
    • 22 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days.
    • One dedicated day per year for volunteering.
    • Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development.
    • An additional PTO day added during milestone anniversary years.
    • Robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal.
    • Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).
  • Work-Life Support & Resources:
    • Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
    • Backup child and pet care, as well as tutoring services.
    • Milestone anniversary bonuses.
  • Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:
    • Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones
    • Contributions for gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives.
    • Discounted healthcare premiums.
    • Healthy meal delivery program subsidies.

Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.

Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.

To apply for this job please visit tradingtechnologies.pinpointhq.com

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