Senior SRE: Shape Reliability for Trading Platform

tastytrade, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Bonuses

Stock Purchase Options

401k Plan

20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an extra)

10 Paid Sick Days

Pet Insurance

Wellness & Mental Health Programs

Charitable Donation Matching

Daily catered lunch in office

Full kitchen with snacks

Shuttle to Metra

Job summary

tastytrade, Inc. in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to define reliability standards and build a scalable observability culture across Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.

You will embed with infrastructure and application teams, shaping a production readiness practice on a HashiCorp Nomad-based fabric. You will implement SLOs, error budgets, and instrumentation using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, while mentoring engineers and driving fault-injection exercises.

Qualifications

• Production-quality coding in Ruby and/or Java, with Python for automation.
• A track record embedding SRE practices within engineering teams, including SLOs and burn-rate alerting.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana for instrumentation.
• Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet capture).
• On-call experience on production systems and ability to lead blameless post-incident reviews.
• Experience with HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define customer-meaningful SLOs and set error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows.
• Author tastytrade's first reliability standards including SLO methodology and observability guide.
• Contribute reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, load-shedding) into services.
• Extend observability stack and guide teams across Nomad-based service fabric.
• Design and run tabletop exercises and fault-injection testing to stress-test the platform.
• Mentor engineers to build a culture of site reliability champions.

Skills

Ruby

Java

Python

SRE practices

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux internals

Networking

TCP/IP

On-call experience

Nomad

Consul

Vault

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Nomad

Consul

Vault

Job description

tastytrade, Inc. in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to define reliability standards and build a scalable observability culture across Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.

You will embed with infrastructure and application teams, shaping a production readiness practice on a HashiCorp Nomad-based fabric. You will implement SLOs, error budgets, and instrumentation using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, while mentoring engineers and driving fault-injection exercises.