Low-Latency Trading SRE — Real-Time Go/Rust, Kubernetes

The Bitcoin Street Journal; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first team

Competitive compensation

Full benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Ondo Finance seeks an experienced SRE to own reliability and observability of a 24/7 real-time trading platform built with Rust and Go, deployed on a multi-region Kubernetes cluster on AWS. You will read and modify Go and Rust code, debug latency regressions, run on-call during market hours, and build automation to keep the system healthy with a small team.

This is a remote-first role with competitive compensation, full benefits, and opportunities to shape observability, deployment safety, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure roles for latency-sensitive systems.
• Strong programming ability in Go or Rust, and willingness to work in both; this role changes application code.
• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes and AWS experience: stateful, latency-sensitive workloads in production.
• Strong observability instincts: fluent PromQL, structured-log analysis, high-signal alerts.
• Solid Linux internals and networking fundamentals: chase p99 regressions through kernel, NIC, or GC.
• Sound judgment under pressure and clear written communication during incidents.

Responsibilities

• Debug production incidents end to end: stale data feeds, rate limits, WebSocket disconnects, latency regressions in trading path.
• Harden market data ingestion from providers and venue feeds, including staleness detection, failover, and replay.
• Build reconciliation and data-integrity tooling across live gauges, Postgres, and data lake to ensure positions and PnL always agree.
• Participate in an on-call rotation covering US equity market hours and 24/7 crypto venues.

Skills

Go

Rust

Kubernetes

AWS

PromQL

Linux networking

Tools

GitOps (Flux)

SOPS secrets

Datadog

Job description

Ondo Finance seeks an experienced SRE to own reliability and observability of a 24/7 real-time trading platform built with Rust and Go, deployed on a multi-region Kubernetes cluster on AWS. You will read and modify Go and Rust code, debug latency regressions, run on-call during market hours, and build automation to keep the system healthy with a small team.

This is a remote-first role with competitive compensation, full benefits, and opportunities to shape observability, deployment safety, and