Senior SRE: Shape Reliability for Real-Time Trading Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonuses

Stock Purchase Options

401k Plan

Paid Vacation Days

Paid Sick Days

Wellness Programs

Charitable Donation Matching

Catered lunch when in office

Snack pantry

Job summary

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is seeking its first Senior Site Reliability Engineer to define reliability standards, SLOs, and error budgets across order execution and market data delivery. You’ll embed with infrastructure and application teams, shaping a culture of reliability in Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.

You’ll extend observability tooling (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) and guide scaling on a Nomad-based fabric, while mentoring others to champion a blameless post-incident review

Qualifications

• Production-quality coding in Ruby and/or Java, with Python for automation.
• Experience embedding SRE practices in engineering teams (SLOs, error budgets, burn-rate alerting).
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana for instrumenting services.

Responsibilities

• Define customer-meaningful SLOs and set error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for brokerage flows.
• Author reliability standards including SLO methodology and observability guide.
• Contribute reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, load-shedding) into services (Ruby/Java/Elixir).
• Extend observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) and guide scaling workloads on Nomad fabric.
• Design and run tabletop exercises and fault-injection tests to stress-test the platform.
• Mentor engineers to grow a sustained site reliability culture.

Skills

Ruby

Java

Elixir

Python

SRE Practices

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux Networking

On-call

Nomad / Consul / Vault

Tools

Nomad

Consul

Vault

Job description

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is seeking its first Senior Site Reliability Engineer to define reliability standards, SLOs, and error budgets across order execution and market data delivery. You’ll embed with infrastructure and application teams, shaping a culture of reliability in Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.

You’ll extend observability tooling (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) and guide scaling on a Nomad-based fabric, while mentoring others to champion a blameless post-incident review