Algorithmic Trading, Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

BTIG Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance their algorithmic trading systems. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead infrastructure management in a fast-paced environment, ensuring high availability and performance. You'll collaborate closely with software engineers to integrate reliability into applications, drive improvements in service observability, and automate operational processes. If you have a passion for infrastructure and a desire to make a significant impact, this is the perfect role for you. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will be valued and your contributions will shape the future of trading technology.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Strong experience with on-prem and cloud infrastructure management.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage reliable, scalable infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Automate operational processes like monitoring, deployment, and incident response.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Infrastructure Management

Python

Go

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux Internals

Networking

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Algorithmic Trading, Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

New York, New York, United States

Job Purpose:
BTIG seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our tight-knit, high-caliber engineering team. You’ll be the first dedicated SRE, responsible for the infrastructure operating our algorithmic trading systems. This is an opportunity for someone with solid infrastructure management experience but ready for more ownership—someone eager to apply their skills and be a leader in a fast-paced, high-performance environment where daily deployments and continuous iteration are the norm. Our trading systems operate in a latency-sensitive, high-throughput on-prem environment, integrating with global exchanges, market data feeds, and client order flows. You'll work closely with developers and dev ops to design and maintain systems that are highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Build and manage reliable, scalable infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles
• Automate operational processes — monitoring, deployment, incident response, and recovery
• Instrument and monitor systems to proactively identify and fix bottlenecks and failure points
• Participate in incident responses, and postmortems
• Drive improvements in service reliability, performance, and observability
• Collaborate with software engineers to embed reliability into application design and deployment
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to support faster, safer deployments

Requirements & Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Strong experience with both on-prem and cloud infrastructure management
• Proficiency with scripting or programming (Python, Go, Bash, etc.)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of Linux internals, networking, and system performance tuning
• Deep experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)
• Must be authorized to work full time in the U.S.; BTIG does not offer sponsorship for work visas of any type

About BTIG:

BTIG is a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services. With an extensive global footprint and more than 700 employees, BTIG, LLC and its affiliates operate out of 20 cities throughout the U.S., and in Europe, Asia and Australia. BTIG offers execution, expertise and insights for equities, equity derivatives, ETFs and fixed income, currency and commodities. The firm’s core capabilities include global execution, portfolio, electronic and outsource trading, investment banking, prime brokerage, capital introduction, corporate access, research and strategy, commission management and more.

Compensation:

• BTIG offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Salary range is based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, years of applicable experience, skills, qualifications, licensure and certifications, and other business and organization needs.
• The current estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year. Please note that certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation such as discretionary bonus or overtime.