Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Shape Our Reliability Practice

tastylive, Inc.; United States; 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

Full kitchen with snacks

Job summary

tastytrade, part of IG Group, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to define reliability for our brokerage platform used by active traders. You’ll shape customer-meaningful SLOs, error budgets, and observability standards across Ruby, Java, and Elixir services in a Nomad-based fabric.

You’ll mentor teams, extend observability with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana, and lead fault-injection testing to ensure resilience. This is a chance to shape a culture of reliability from day one.

Qualifications

• Production-quality coding experience in Ruby and/or Java, plus Python for automation.
• Track record embedding SRE practices within engineering teams, including SLOs, error budgets, and burn-rate alerting.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, with the ability to instrument services directly.
• Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet capture, and flow analysis.
• On-call experience on production systems and comfort building a blameless post-incident review process.
• Experience influencing standards across teams you don’t own; HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Define customer-meaningful SLOs and set error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows, including order execution and market data delivery.
• Author tastytrade’s first reliability standards, including SLO methodology, error-budget policy, an observability instrumentation guide, and a Production Readiness Review (PRR) checklist.
• Contribute reliability patterns, such as circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, and load-shedding, directly into our Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.
• Extend our observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) and guide teams as they scale workloads across our HashiCorp Nomad service fabric.
• Design and run tabletop exercises and fault-injection testing to stress-test the platform against real-world failure and volatility scenarios.
• Mentor engineers across teams to build a culture of site reliability champions so the practice outlives any one person.

Skills

Ruby/Java coding

SRE practices

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux networking

On-call experience

Nomad/Consul/Vault

Tools

HashiCorp Nomad

Consul

Vault

Job description

tastytrade, part of IG Group, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to define reliability for our brokerage platform used by active traders. You’ll shape customer-meaningful SLOs, error budgets, and observability standards across Ruby, Java, and Elixir services in a Nomad-based fabric.

You’ll mentor teams, extend observability with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana, and lead fault-injection testing to ensure resilience. This is a chance to shape a culture of reliability from day one.