Site Reliability Engineer | Quant Trading Firm | New York | Up to $400K + Bonus

Hunter Bond; New York (NY); On-site; USD 360,000 - 440,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Ownership of large-scale infra

Job summary

Hunter Bond in New York, NY, is seeking an experienced SRE/Platform Engineer to own scalable infrastructure behind critical trading systems operating globally 24/7. You will design, build, and run platform infra, streamline CI/CD, and boost observability across distributed systems.

Join a high-caliber team with real ownership, working with Kubernetes, Docker, IaC, and modern SRE practices to deliver reliable, massively available systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Background as an SRE, Platform Engineer, or DevOps Engineer.
• Strong Linux and automation skills.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker.
• Solid grounding in monitoring, logging, and observability tooling.
• Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Scripting or programming in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.
• A real passion for reliable, highly available systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run scalable, resilient platform infrastructure
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines to speed up software delivery
• Level up observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Build automation and self-service tooling that engineers genuinely rely on
• Run containerised workloads and orchestration at large scale
• Drive reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems

Skills

SRE experience

Platform engineering

DevOps

Linux skills

Automation

Observability

Python/Go/Bash

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

IaC

Monitoring tools

Job description

Up to $400,000 base + significant bonus

Build the infrastructure behind a global trading powerhouse.

Our client is one of the world's leading quantitative trading firms. They’re hiring an SRE / Platform Engineer to own the platforms behind mission-critical trading systems that run at global scale, 24/7. You’ll have real ownership, a high-calibre team, and the resources to do your best work.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and run scalable, resilient platform infrastructure
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines to speed up software delivery
• Level up observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Build automation and self-service tooling that engineers genuinely rely on
• Run containerised workloads and orchestration at large scale
• Drive reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems

What you’ll bring

• Background as an SRE, Platform Engineer, or DevOps Engineer
• Strong Linux and automation skills
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker
• Solid grounding in monitoring, logging, and observability tooling
• Infrastructure as Code experience
• Scripting or programming in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
• A real passion for reliable, highly available systems

Why this role

• Compensation up to $400K base, plus bonus and comprehensive benefits
• Real ownership of large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure
• Work alongside exceptional engineers in a high-performance culture
• Hard problems, modern SRE/DevOps practices, and global scale