Site Reliability Engineer

Socket.dev; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Longbridge is seeking a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to design, scale, and safeguard the reliability of our AI-driven financial platforms. This is a high-impact role where you’ll partner closely with product and engineering teams across the globe.

You’ll own system reliability, drive automation, incident response, and adopt cloud-native best practices to support a fast-moving fintech startup environment in the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps or production engineering roles.
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python or Go for automation.
• Solid Linux administration and CI/CD experience.
• Proven incident management and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Collaborates effectively with remote/global teams; fintech startup experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own system reliability: Design, implement, and operate highly available, secure distributed systems to meet uptime and performance targets.
• Build automation at scale: Develop and enforce best practices in monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Partner globally: Work with development teams from design through deployment, ensuring reliability and resiliency from day one.
• Lead incident response: Drive on-call processes, conduct root-cause analysis, and reduce MTTR and failure recurrence.
• Future-proof our stack: Evaluate and adopt modern cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Prometheus, AWS/GCP) to keep systems secure and scalable.
• Stress-test and safeguard: Lead disaster recovery, chaos testing, and capacity planning for critical wealth management services.

Skills

AWS/GCP/Azure

Python/Go

Linux administration

Incident management

Distributed systems

Remote/global collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Longbridge is a new-generation, AI-driven online brokerage on a mission to make investing smarter, simpler, and more accessible for everyone. Headquartered in Singapore, we are redefining the investment journey by connecting the stages of "Discovery → Learning → Trading." With our proprietary AI assistant, Longbridge AI, and a cloud-native infrastructure, we provide retail investors with institutional-grade insights and a seamless global trading network. At Longbridge, you won’t just be working for a brokerage; you’ll be building the future of financial infrastructure.

As part of our global expansion, we’re looking for a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, scale, and safeguard the reliability of our next-generation financial platforms. This is a high-impact role where you’ll partner closely with product and engineering teams across the globe.

• Own system reliability: Design, implement, and operate highly available, secure distributed systems to meet strict uptime and performance targets.
• Build automation at scale: Develop and enforce best practices in monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Partner globally: Work with development teams from design through deployment, ensuring reliability and resiliency are built in from day one.
• Lead incident response: Drive on-call processes, conduct root-cause analysis, and continuously reduce MTTR and failure recurrence.
• Future-proof our stack: Evaluate and adopt modern cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, AWS/GCP) to keep systems secure and scalable.
• Stress-test and safeguard: Lead disaster recovery, chaos testing, and capacity planning for critical wealth management services.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or production engineering roles.
• Strong background in AWS (or GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling.
• Solid Linux administration skills and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven ability in incident management and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across remote/global teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving fintech/tech startup environment.
• Bonus: Experience supporting regulated financial systems; ability to communicate in Mandarin to collaborate with Asia-based colleagues.

Why Join Us

• Shape the reliability foundation of our U.S. product launch in wealth tech.
• Opportunity to build systems from the ground up and influence technical direction.
• Competitive compensation package and growth opportunities.