Senior Site Reliability Engineer (US Hours)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Ahmedabad/GiftCity
Description
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a development-first role focused on coding, automation, and platform stability. The ideal candidate is a skilled software developer who values a balance between building new tools and maintaining operational excellence. To ensure this balance, the role follows a 4‑week rotation: 3 weeks of pure development, 1 week of dispatch responding to alerts and mitigating production issues. This position supports US time zone.
What you’ll be doing
Platform Reliability & Automation
- Design, build, and maintain advanced telemetry and automation tooling to monitor global platform health and trigger automated corrective actions.
- Own and improve incident response runbooks and automated remediation workflows, reducing MTTR over time.
- Participate in on-call rotations, diagnosing and resolving system issues and escalations from the customer support team (this is an internal-facing role, not customer-facing).
- Drive continuous improvement through post-incident reviews (PIRs) and engineering initiatives that eliminate classes of failure.
Software Development
- Develop advanced monitoring software in python and GoLang.
- Contribute to full-stack troubleshooting across our React.js frontend, Python backend services (Flask, Litestar, Celery), and AWS-managed Kafka (MSK/ESK).
- Write infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, building reusable modules and submodules to provision and manage cloud resources.
Key Responsibilities
- Development Cycle (3 Weeks): Focus on coding advanced telemetry, implementing automation strategies, and building tools that proactively monitor platform health.
- Operations Cycle (1 Week): Rotate into an operational role to swiftly diagnose system issues and handle internal escalations, ensuring continuous platform stability.
- Continuous Improvement: Use insights gained during the operations week to develop automated solutions that reduce future incidents and optimize system performance.
- Supports US hours
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential Skills & Experience
- Extensive professional Python development experience, including object-oriented design and multi-threaded applications.
- Experience with Golang.
- Substantial hands‑on Terraform experience—able to author modules and submodules from scratch.
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Substantial hands‑on AWS experience across EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, MSK, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, and SQS.
- Solid Linux systems experience, including monitoring critical system health parameters.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Familiarity with trading systems, financial markets, or low-latency environments.
- AWS Associate-level certification or higher (preferred but not required).
- Experience with chaos engineering, SLO/SLI frameworks, or formal reliability programs.
- Prior on-call experience at a high-traffic or mission-critical platform.
- Experience building or supporting React.js applications.
- Working understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and load balancing concepts.
What We Bring to the Table
- Health & Financial Security:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Time Off & Flexibility:
- Hybrid model: three days in-office, two days remote.
- 21 days Paid Time Off per year, with rollover option.
- One dedicated volunteering day per year.
- Two professional development days per year.
- Additional PTO day added during milestone anniversary years.
- Robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal.
- Generous parental leave for all parents.
- Work-Life Support & Resources:
- Budget for tech accessories such as monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment.
- Milestone anniversary bonuses.
- Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:
- Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and wellness initiatives.
- Culture:
- Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.
Equal Opportunity Statement
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, parental status, veteran, or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.