Senior SRE: Linux Systems & App Observability (Hybrid)

Tastyworks; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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