Site Reliability Engineer | Predictions Tech

Susquehanna International Group, LLP; Bala Cynwyd (PA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Susquehanna International Group, LLP is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Predictions) to ensure reliability and performance of trading desk services in a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based environment.

You will build tooling, automate deployments, and drive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and related technologies across Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Collaboration with quants and traders is a key part of the role, with on-call responsibilities and incident response improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in technology (software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role).
• 5+ years supporting production systems in a containerized environment (Kubernetes strongly preferred; AKS and/or EKS experience a plus).
• Experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, networking, managed data services) and/or multi-cluster Kubernetes operations.
• Strong software engineering and scripting skills, especially in Python, Go and/or bash.
• Hands-on experience with core production technologies such as Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, PostgreSQL, Redis, Git, and GitOps/CD tooling (e.g. ArgoCD).
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a highly distributed environment.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working closely with developers, quants and traders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain tooling and automation to monitor the health, performance, and correctness of production services.
• Write production-grade software and scripts to support reliability, deployment workflows, and operational visibility.
• Own and improve observability across metrics, logs, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Operate and support core data and messaging infrastructure, including Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Develop and maintain GitOps based workflows, CI/CD, containerization, and deployment pipelines.
• Own production readiness for new system changes, ensuring safe rollout and high availability.
• Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems, Linux, Kubernetes, networking, and application layers.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem practices.
• Serve as a member of an on-call schedule to handle production issues, drive incident resolution, and contribute to post-incident improvements.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Bash

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Git

ArgoCD

GitOps

AWS

EKS

AKS

Observability

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

EKS

AKS

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Git

ArgoCD

GitOps/CD tooling

Job description

Overview

Site Reliability Engineer (Predictions)

Overview

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support our Predictions trading desk. In this role, you will work at the intersection of software engineering and production operations, ensuring our services run reliably, efficiently, and safely at scale.

You will collaborate with developers, quants, and traders to build and maintain the tooling, automation, and observability required for a modern cloud-native environment. This is a hands on engineering role where you will contribute to production systems, improve resiliency, and help drive best practices for operability in cloud-native, Kubernetes based environments (including AWS / EKS).

In this role you will:

• Design, build, and maintain tooling and automation to monitor the health, performance, and correctness of production services.
• Write production-grade software and scripts to support reliability, deployment workflows, and operational visibility.
• Own and improve observability across metrics, logs, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Operate and support core data and messaging infrastructure, including Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Develop and maintain GitOps based workflows, CI/CD, containerization, and deployment pipelines.
• Own production readiness for new system changes, ensuring safe rollout and high availability.
• Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems, Linux, Kubernetes, networking, and application layers.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem practices.
• Serve as a member of an on-call schedule to handle production issues, drive incident resolution, and contribute to post-incident improvements.

What we’re looking for

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in technology (software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role).
• 5+ years supporting production systems in a containerized environment (Kubernetes strongly preferred; AKS and/or EKS experience a plus).
• Experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, networking, managed data services) and/or multi-cluster Kubernetes operations.
• Strong software engineering and scripting skills, especially in Python, Go and/or bash.
• Hands-on experience with core production technologies such as Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, PostgreSQL, Redis, Git, and GitOps/CD tooling (e.g. ArgoCD).
• Strong troubleshooting skills in a highly distributed environment.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working closely with developers, quants and traders.

Nice to have:

• Prior experience in trading, fintech, sports betting, or other real-time / high-availability platforms.
• Familiarity with prediction markets or event-driven systems.
• Strong quantitative reasoning skills.