Reliability Engineer

Two Sigma; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Two Sigma in New York City is seeking a Reliability Engineer to lead development and operational support for mission-critical systems, building automation and scalable tooling.

You will enhance observability, operability, and uptime, collaborating with multiple software teams to improve architecture, tests, and deployment processes. The role includes on-call duties and ongoing automation efforts to deliver robust, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of experience in Reliability Engineering; 5+ years preferred.
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Ability to program in Python, Java, C++, or Rust.
• Proactive problem solving and automation focus.
• Experience automating processes and solving problems algorithmically.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and operational support for critical systems.
• Develop software for systems, services, tools and libraries.
• Improve reliability through observability, operability, scalability and availability.
• Build automation-oriented software for maintainable, scalable systems.
• Maintain rigorous change management and continuous improvement of tests and automated checks.
• Collaborate with software teams on architecture, reliability, performance and tooling.
• Own daily operation and monitoring of production environments.
• Participate in on-call support rotation.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Automation

Distributed systems

Education

BS/BA in CS

Tools

Linux

Git

CI/CD

Job description

You will take on the following responsibilities:

• Lead engineering and operational support for some of the firm’s most critical systems.
• Software development of systems, services, tools and libraries.
• Improve all aspects of software reliability, including observability, operability, scalability, and availability.
• Build and maintain automation focused software to enable us to craft maintainable and scalable systems.
• Adhere to rigorous change management controls, including a commitment to continuous improvement of our tests and automated checks.
• Collaborate with our software engineering teams on architectural and product design, reliability, performance, support issues and improvements to our tools, processes, and software.
• Own the daily operation and monitoring of a production-critical environment.
• Participate in an on-call support rotation.

You should possess the following qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year of experience required; 5+ years of experience preferred in Reliability Engineering.
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or another highly technical, scientific discipline.
• Ability to program (structured and object-oriented) with one or more high level languages such as Python, Java, C++, Rust.
• Proactive approach to problem identification and resolution and continuous development and automation.
• Proven track record for automating processes combined with an algorithmic approach to solving problems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with UNIX or Linux systems.
• Experience working with distributed systems and low-latency applications.
• Experience with networking fundamentals.
• Experience working directly with external counterparties on issue resolution.
• Experience with Python.