Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Linux Systems & Application Observability

JobCubby; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonuses

Stock Purchase Options

Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits

401k Plan

Paid Vacation Days

Paid Sick Days

Gym Membership Reimbursement

Commuter Benefits

Pet Insurance

Wellness & Mental Health Programs

Charitable Donation Matching

Volunteer Days Off

Daily catered lunch

Job summary

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Linux systems and application observability in Chicago. You will partner with infrastructure and application teams to harden order execution and market data delivery, scale the Nomad-based service fabric, and improve telemetry across services written in Ruby, Java, and Elixir.

We offer competitive compensation, performance bonuses, stock options, comprehensive benefits, and a hybrid in-office schedule three days per

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals or cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in Python, Ruby, or Java and experience with observability tools.
• On-call experience on production systems and blameless post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and automation to reduce toil.
• Extend observability stack with instrumentation to surface failure modes.
• Own scalability across the HashiCorp Nomad service fabric and capacity planning.
• Mentor engineers to build a culture of site reliability champions.

Skills

Fault-tolerant systems

Linux internals

Cloud-native architectures

Programming: Python

Programming: Ruby

Programming: Java

Observability tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

TCP/IP networking

On-call experience

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

HashiCorp Nomad

Consul

Vault

Job description

to apply - email only, no card. You can also save this posting or score it againstyour profile with AI.## About the roleYou will build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and automate operational tasks to reduce toil for engineering teams. Additionally, you will own scalability for the HashiCorp Nomad service fabric and enhance observability to proactively identify and resolve system failures.## RequirementsCandidates must have hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant distributed systems and deep knowledge of Linux internals or cloud-native architectures. Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Ruby, or Java and experience with observability tools like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry are required.## BenefitsPerformance BonusesStock Purchase OptionsMedical BenefitsVision BenefitsDental Benefits401k PlanPaid Vacation DaysPaid Sick DaysGym Membership ReimbursementCommuter BenefitsPet InsuranceWellness ProgramsMental Health ProgramsCharitable Donation MatchingPaid Volunteer DaysCatered Lunch## Full descriptionCompany Name: tastytradeRole: Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Linux Systems & Application ObservabilityLocation: Chicago, IL (Hybrid, 3 days/week in office)Role Summary Come join tastytrade, part of IG Group, as we build the reliability practice behind the brokerage platform that active options, futures, and equities traders rely on every market day. As our first Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll harden the systems behind order execution and market data delivery - designing for fault tolerance, closing gaps in our telemetry, and making sure our HashiCorp Nomad-based service fabric scales cleanly as trading volume grows. You'll work embedded alongside our infrastructure and application engineering teams, contributing directly to our Ruby, Java, and Elixir services. This is a rare opportunity to shape a practice and a culture from day one, on a platform where every order, quote, and position has to be right, because real client capital is on the line.What You'll Do (Job Responsibilities)* Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that automates repetitiveoperational work and reduces toil for Platform and Application teams.* Run gap analysis across our observability stack to find blind spots in telemetry, logging, and alertingcoverage, then close them so failures surface before customers feel them.* Own scalability work across our HashiCorp Nomad service fabric: capacity planning, load testing,and identifying architectural bottlenecks before they become incidents.* Extend our observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) with the instrumentationneeded to actually see the failure modes above.* Set SLOs and error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows, oncethe fault-tolerance and telemetry foundation is in place.* Mentor engineers across teams to build a culture of site reliability champions so the practice outlivesany one person.Who You Are (Skills Needed)* Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems - not just describingthe patterns, but having shipped them.* Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures,containerization.* Experience running gap analyses on observability/telemetry systems: identifying what's notinstrumented, not alerted on, or not visible until it's too late.* A track record scaling systems under real production load, including capacity planning andarchitectural bottleneck identification.* Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, with the ability to instrumentservices directly.* Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packetcapture, and flow analysis.* On-call experience on production systems and comfort building a blameless post-incident reviewprocess.* Working knowledge of SLOs and error budgets as a tool, not the job description; HashiCorp Nomad,Consul, or Vault experience is a strong plus.* Strong programming skills in a language such as Python, Ruby, Java, or similar.Company Perks + Benefits:* Performance Bonuses* Stock Purchase Options* Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits* 401k Plan* 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)* 10 Paid Sick Days* Gym Membership Reimbursement* Commuter Benefits* Pet Insurance* Wellness & Mental Health Programs* Charitable Donation Matching* Two Paid Volunteer Days Off* Daily catered lunch when in the office* Full kitchen with snacks and beverages* In-building gym* Shuttle to/from MetraBase Salary Range: $180,000-$200,000 The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications.Discretionary Performance Bonus: 15-20% of base salary based on individual and company performance.About IGNA + tasty IG North America is home to tastytrade, tastylive & tastyfx - a family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual investors. Founded in Chicago by the creators of thinkorswim, acquired by London-based IG Group in 2021, we combine startup innovation with the backing of a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions - built on scale, trust, and proof.From our headquarters in Chicago's Fulton Market, our team builds award-winning trading platforms, produces live financial education content daily, and creates technology that makes complex markets accessible. tastytrade is our retail brokerage for self-directed investing and trading, with tastylive providing content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US. tastycrypto provides self-custody digital wallets for decentralized finance.We're a lean, collaborative team that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact. Whether you're building technology, creating content, serving customers, or supporting operations, you'll work alongside people who are passionate about disrupting traditional finance and genuinely care about helping traders succeed. Our culture rewards initiative, embraces experimentation, and measures success by the value we create for our users. The bar is high - bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG|tasty - the future gets built here.Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.tastytrade | tastylive | tastyfx 1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607