Senior SRE: Linux Systems & App Observability (Hybrid)

Tastyworks

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+
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Performance Bonuses
Stock Purchase Options
Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
401k Plan
20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an اضافi)

Job summary

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to harden the platform behind trading services. You will work closely with infra and app teams, instrument Ruby, Java, and Elixir services, and shape a reliability culture from day one.

The role emphasizes fault tolerance, telemetry, and scalable Nomad-based service fabric in a high-stakes trading environment. Based in Chicago with a hybrid schedule (3 days in office), the role offers strong base compensation and a

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Experience with observability/telemetry, alerting, and instrumentation.
  • Experience scaling systems under production load and capacity planning.
  • Strong Linux internals and networking knowledge (TCP/IP, UDP, etc.).

Responsibilities

  • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling to reduce toil.
  • Close gaps in observability, telemetry, logging, and alerting coverage.
  • Own scaling work for Nomad service fabric: capacity planning and bottleneck analysis.
  • Extend observability stack with instrumentation to see failure modes.
  • Set SLOs and error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting.
  • Mentor engineers to build a culture of reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems
Linux systems
Cloud-native
Containerization
Observability
OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
SLOs & error budgets
Nomad/Consul/Vault
Python
Ruby/Java

Tools

HashiCorp Nomad
Consul
Vault

Job description

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to harden the platform behind trading services. You will work closely with infra and app teams, instrument Ruby, Java, and Elixir services, and shape a reliability culture from day one.

The role emphasizes fault tolerance, telemetry, and scalable Nomad-based service fabric in a high-stakes trading environment. Based in Chicago with a hybrid schedule (3 days in office), the role offers strong base compensation and a

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