Site Reliability Engineer (Fully Remote)

Databento; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Databento, a market data platform for modern finance, seeks an experienced SRE/DevOps engineer to own uptime, performance, and observability of our API and platform services.

You will help set the standard for how the rest of engineering builds and monitors software, design high-availability deployment strategies, and build observability across logging, metrics, and tracing. This remote-first role emphasizes reliability and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Full-time experience in SRE, DevOps, or backend engineering.
• Hands-on observability tooling experience.
• Strong Python and Linux debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Own uptime, SLAs, and SLOs across our API and platform services.
• Build and maintain observability across logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Design and run high-availability deployment and containerization strategies.

Skills

Python

Linux debugging

SRE/DevOps

Tools

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

• Databento is the market data platform for modern finance.
• We own the entire market data stack end-to-end.

About the Role:

• You'll own the uptime, performance, and observability of our platform.
• You'll help set the standard for how the rest of engineering builds and monitors software.

Responsibilities:

• Own uptime, SLAs, and SLOs across our API and platform services.
• Build and maintain observability across logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Design and run high-availability deployment and containerization strategies.

Preferred Background:

• Full-time experience in SRE, DevOps, or backend engineering.
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong proficiency in Python and Linux debugging tools.

Databento is a market data platform for modern finance, providing real-time and historical data across futures, options, and equities through a unified API. Their team includes alumni from top quantitative trading firms, and they offer a remote-first culture with a focus on developer experience and reliability.