Senior SRE: Linux Systems & Observability - Hybrid Chicago

Devopsroles; 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

Volunteer Days Off

Daily catered lunch

Job summary

tastytrade is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build a reliability practice behind a high-volume brokerage platform. You will harden systems supporting order execution and market data delivery, design for fault tolerance, and scale a Nomad-based service fabric. You’ll collaborate with infrastructure and application teams on Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.

This is a founding SRE role with a chance to shape culture and practice from day one, in a hybrid Chicago office environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that automates repetitive operational work and reduces toil for Platform and Application teams.
• Run gap analysis across observability stack to close blind spots in telemetry, logging, and alerting coverage.
• Own scalability work across HashiCorp Nomad service fabric: capacity planning, load testing, bottleneck identification.
• Extend observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) with instrumentation to see failure modes.
• Set SLOs and error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows.
• Mentor engineers to build a culture of site reliability champions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Linux systems

Cloud-native

Containerization

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Ruby

Java

On-call

Tools

HashiCorp Nomad

Consul

Vault

Job description

tastytrade is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build a reliability practice behind a high-volume brokerage platform. You will harden systems supporting order execution and market data delivery, design for fault tolerance, and scale a Nomad-based service fabric. You’ll collaborate with infrastructure and application teams on Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.

This is a founding SRE role with a chance to shape culture and practice from day one, in a hybrid Chicago office environment.