Site Reliability Engineer

Thurn Partners; New York (NY); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Generous vacation and paid holidays

Paid parental leave plus fertility and adoption support

Catered meals daily

No-cost mental health coaching and therapy

Monthly fitness and wellness benefits

Job summary

A global leader in Quant Trading is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their elite equity teams in New York. The ideal candidate will possess 3+ years of experience in operating distributed systems and proficiency in Python, alongside strong communication skills. Responsibilities include maintaining software system reliability, automating processes, and collaborating on new service transitions. This role offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, and various wellness perks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Experience building production-grade tooling and automation workflows.
• Practical understanding of cloud environments and networking concepts.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high levels of uptime, reliability, and performance for software systems.
• Identify and automate routine processes to eliminate recurring issues.
• Collaborate with development teams to transition new services into production environments.

Skills

Operating and troubleshooting distributed systems

Proficiency in Python

Strong communication skills

Experience with modern software development methodologies

Tools

SQL

GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Linux-based networking

Job description

As a global leader in the Quant Trading space, this firm combines cutting edge technology and world class engineering to execute high profit, high quality trades at speed. They are now searching for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join one of their elite equity teams in New York.

The Role

Collaborate across a cohesive team of engineers, developers, and trade support teams to build world class systems and tools to maintain and constantly improve. A successful individual in this position will possess a mind of innovation and automation who can constantly use measurements and statistics to improve.

Members of the team have backgrounds in a range of areas including: software development, networking, UNIX internals and large-scale systems administration.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain high levels of uptime, reliability, and performance for software systems
• Identify and automate routine processes to eliminate recurring issues
• Take full ownership of incident detection, troubleshooting, and resolution
• Collaborate with development teams to transition new services into production environments
• Optimize and modernize infrastructure to enhance stability, scalability, and security
• Ensure systems are properly supported and meet production-readiness standards

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems, including optimizing performance, ensuring reliability, and triaging complex interactions across services and infrastructure layers
• Proficiency in Python, with experience building production‑grade tooling, automation workflows, diagnostics, and integrations that support large‑scale systems operations
• Familiar with modern software development methodologies and tools, including version control, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization
• Practical understanding of cloud environments (preferably GCP), IP networking, LAN/WAN concepts, and Linux‑based networking
• Strong communication skills—both written and verbal

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SQL and working with relational databases
• Background in designing, deploying, and managing fault‑tolerant, large‑scale systems
• Best‑in‑class medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) with employer match
• Generous vacation and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave plus fertility and adoption support
• Catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily
• No‑cost mental health coaching and therapy
• Monthly fitness and wellness benefits

Pre-Application:

• Please do not apply if you are looking for a contract or remote work
• You must be eligible to live and work in the US, without requiring sponsorship
• Please ensure you meet the required experience section prior to applying
• Allow 1-5 working days for a response to any job enquiry

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