Platform Reliability Engineer: Scale & Resilience

Squarepoint; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Squarepoint in Houston, Texas is seeking a Platform Reliability Specialist responsible for ensuring stability and performance of platform services. This role involves enhancing reliability practices through software engineering and operational ownership, collaborating with developers and infrastructure teams.

Candidates should have a minimum of 4 years in relevant roles, with expertise in system administration, Python, and observability systems. The position is geared towards making significant improvements to platform operations and reliability standards.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or Reliability Engineering roles with direct ownership of production systems.
• Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Linux, Bash, containers).
• Software development experience with Python, version control (Git), and CI/CD systems.
• Hands-on experience with observability systems including metrics, tracing, log pipelines, and alert design.
• Demonstrated experience running systems at scale, including performance tuning, HA/DR architectures, and resilience engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve day‑to‑day platform operations by streamlining workflows.
• Work with service owners to improve resilience and performance.
• Build and maintain platform tools and automation.
• Capture and share reliability knowledge through documentation.
• Help define and evolve reliability standards across the platform.

Skills

SRE

Production Engineering

Reliability Engineering

Python

Git

CI/CD

Linux

Observability systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Squarepoint in Houston, Texas is seeking a Platform Reliability Specialist responsible for ensuring stability and performance of platform services. This role involves enhancing reliability practices through software engineering and operational ownership, collaborating with developers and infrastructure teams.

Candidates should have a minimum of 4 years in relevant roles, with expertise in system administration, Python, and observability systems. The position is geared towards making significant improvements to platform operations and reliability standards.