Site Reliability Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily catered lunches

Modern office environment

Tech talks and knowledge sharing

Job summary

the company Group is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to improve, manage, and monitor production-critical infrastructure and data pipelines. You will work on production systems, sometimes embedded with software teams, to increase reliability and reduce operational risk.

We value a growth mindset, strong problem-solving, and clear technical communication. The role offers a modern office environment in London and opportunities for technology talks and lunches.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python debugging and development.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• Familiar with relational databases and SQL.
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Willingness to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent technical communication skills.
• Attention to detail; 2+ years in industry.
• Undergraduate quantitative degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Improve fault-tolerance and maintainability of data pipelines and trading systems.
• Diagnose and fix bugs in code.
• Lead complex deployments.
• Automate manual workflows.
• Track and prioritize production issues.
• Share on-call rotation for incident response.

Skills

Python

Linux

SQL

Analytical thinking

Learning mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

gRPC

Postgres

Pandas

Golang

Git

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Airflow

Kubernetes

Job description

the company is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will work at the intersection of production operations and software development as you improve, manage, and monitor production-critical infrastructure and data pipelines. At the company, many SREs serve together on a Production Operations team tasked with improving shared production infrastructure. Others are embedded with teams of software engineers to improve specific production systems owned by those teams. the company SREs work on important real-world problems and collaborate with passionate and talented colleagues in an empowering, results-driven environment. This role is a way to make a real difference: your contributions will make our critical systems more reliable, lower operational risk, and increase the efficiency of our engineering effort.

Responsibilities

• Improve fault-tolerance and maintainability of code in proprietary data pipelines and trading systems
• Diagnose and fix bugs in code
• Lead complex deployments
• Automate manual workflows
• Track and prioritize outstanding production-related issues
• Share an on-call rotation responding to incidents to ensure the continuous operation of production-critical systems

Requirements

• Experience with coding and debugging Python
• Experience with Linux
• Familiarity with Relational Databases & SQL
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills and a persistent drive to make things work (better)
• Strong growth mindset and a passion for learning
• Strong technical communication skills
• Attention to detail
• 2 years of relevant industry experience
• An undergraduate degree or comparable training in a quantitative field or equivalent, relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with best practices concerning code maintainability, documentation, quality assurance, continuous integration and deployment
• Experience supporting production systems
• Experience with any of the following: gRPC microservices, Postgres, Pandas, Golang, R, Git, Jenkins, Bazel, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow, Kubernetes

Equal Opportunity EmployerThe the company Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.