Senior SRE: Linux Systems & Observability (Hybrid)

tastytrade; 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

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 Metra

Job summary

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to harden our Linux-based infrastructure and observability. You’ll own scalability for Nomad service fabric, extend OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana instrumentation, and set SLOs with burn-rate alerts.

You’ll work alongside infrastructure and application teams to keep trading platforms reliable and fast. You’ll mentor engineers, help design fault-tolerant systems, and contribute during on-call rotations with a

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems with real deployments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, Linux, cloud-native architectures, and containers.
• Experience running gap analyses on observability/telemetry systems to close blind spots.
• Track record scaling systems under production load, incl. capacity planning and bottleneck identification.
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, including instrumentation.
• Strong Linux internals, networking (TCP/IP, UDP, multicast), and packet capture.
• On-call experience and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Familiarity with SLOs and error budgets; Nomad/Consul/Vault is a plus.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Ruby, Java or similar.

Responsibilities

• Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling to reduce toil for Platform and Application teams.
• Perform gap analyses across observability stack to surface hidden issues before customers are affected.
• Own scalability work across HashiCorp Nomad service fabric: capacity planning, load testing, bottleneck identification.
• Extend observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) with instrumentation for failure modes.
• Set SLOs and burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows after establishing fault-tolerance foundations.
• Mentor engineers to grow a culture of site reliability champions across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Linux systems

Cloud-native architectures

Containerization

Observability/telemetry

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

SLOs and error budgets

HashiCorp Nomad

Consul/Vault (HashiCorp)

Programming: Python

Programming: Ruby/Java

Tools

Nomad

Consul

Vault

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to harden our Linux-based infrastructure and observability. You’ll own scalability for Nomad service fabric, extend OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana instrumentation, and set SLOs with burn-rate alerts.

You’ll work alongside infrastructure and application teams to keep trading platforms reliable and fast. You’ll mentor engineers, help design fault-tolerant systems, and contribute during on-call rotations with a