Senior Platform Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes & Cloud

NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Paid holidays

Company 401k match

Life & disability insurance

Service day

Job summary

NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team in Chicago. You will ensure availability, performance, and scalability of trading systems by deploying and managing services in Kubernetes and collaborating with product teams to keep revenue-generating platforms robust.

You will lead reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, automate deployments, design monitoring with SOC 2/PCI DSS in mind, and work across web, mobile, and desktop deployments

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud platforms.
• Experience leading reliability initiatives and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for SRE, setting direction and mentoring engineers.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production incidents to keep systems online.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotations and weekend deployments.
• Build tools to automate deployments and incident responses.
• Design monitoring and alerting with SLIs/SLOs across platforms.
• Use Terraform for provisioning and IaC across environments.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and QA to deliver features.

Skills

Senior Platform Engineering

SRE leadership

Trading industry experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Open-source contributions

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Disclaimer: Please be advised that the most accurate and up-to-date information about our open roles—including job descriptions, compensation, and benefits—can only be guaranteed on our official job board. For the latest listings and details, please visit: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ninjatrader .

JOIN US ON OUR MISSION TO BECOME THE #1 RETAIL TRADING PLATFORM IN THE WORLD

Welcome to the dynamic world of NinjaTrader! As an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker, we're empowering traders to take control of their financial destiny. How do we do it? We provide cutting-edge products and services that enhance the trading journey. Whether a seasoned pro or just starting out, NinjaTrader equips traders with award-winning software and brokerage services to navigate the world's leading financial markets with confidence.

Our growth story is nothing short of exhilarating. Since 2003, NinjaTrader has been dedicated to understanding and supporting traders on their journey toward trading triumph. Through those efforts, our user base has grown to over 2 million users and we have become the number one rated futures brokerage worldwide.

But we're not stopping there. We're constantly evolving, pushing boundaries, and modernizing the futures industry. Our commitment to innovation means users will always have access to dynamic tools, real-time support, and a community of like-minded traders.

So, why work at NinjaTrader? Here, you're not just part of a team; you're part of a movement. We empower employees to reach new heights in their careers by providing a dynamic culture focused on social connection, professional development, and employee recognition initiatives. Sounds too good to be true? Take it from our employees.

Join us as we redefine what's possible in trading, advocate for our customers, and continue our journey toward becoming the world's top retail-focused trading platform in the world.

What you'll do:

Join our Platform Engineering team, where you'll ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of the trading systems that power NinjaTrader. You'll deploy single- and multi-cluster services to Kubernetes, partnering with Product Engineering and Technical Operations to strengthen monitoring, reduce operational toil, and keep our revenue-generating systems running for traders around the world. Working alongside technical leadership, you'll help maintain 99.95% uptime and high performance across the trading platform.

In this role you will:

• Serve as the technical lead for the SRE function, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers across reliability initiatives
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues with a systematic problem-solving approach to keep revenue-generating systems running
• Participate in a weekly 12x7 on-call rotation, including weekend deployments and checkouts before markets open on Sundays
• Perform initial root cause analysis and remediation of production incidents
• Build tools that automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and incident responses with the goal of minimal human involvement
• Design reliable monitoring and alerting systems with Product and QA teams, establishing and tracking SLIs/SLOs across web, mobile, desktop, and trading platforms
• Leverage Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform to automate provisioning, scaling, and management across all platforms
• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to deliver features on time while meeting scalability, security, and performance requirements
• Implement security and compliance best practices (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS) throughout the software delivery lifecycle for web, mobile, and desktop deployments

What you'll need:

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, or Go) and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Helm
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including in-depth knowledge of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar
• Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams and mentor junior engineers
• Trading industry experience
• Contributions to open-source projects

Compensation:

The salary range for this role will be $160,000.00 - $210,000.00 USD. In addition, this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 12%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%).

Salary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation package offered by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader offers a 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of23 days per yearplus seven paid holidays.

Location:

This role is based in Chicago, IL. *There may be remote flexibility for exceptional candidates in the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin.

Hybrid:

For Chicago-based employees, we follow a hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays. In addition to these weekly remote days, we offer:

• 20 additional flex remote days annually
• 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays

Our Core Benefits Include:

• Generous PTO
• 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
• 1 Service Day Annually
• 401k with 3.5% Company Match
• Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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