System Engineer

Hunter Bond; New York (NY); On-site; USD 425,000 - 575,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Beautiful offices

Job summary

Elite FinTech Firm in New York seeks a Systems Engineer to own production reliability, availability, and performance. You will automate repetitive tasks, investigate systemic issues, and deliver engineering solutions that scale in a fast-moving environment.

Join a team where you’ll lead incident management, promote SRE practices, and understand application behavior in full context, working across infrastructure and development with extensive Linux/on-prem experiences.

Qualifications

• Impressive Education (STEM).
• Strong experience across infrastructure and development.
• Extensive background in Linux/on-premise environments.
• General infrastructure technology stack across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of applications in production.
• Automate repetitive operational work and resolve recurring systemic issues.
• Conduct root cause analysis and deliver new engineering solutions to complex technical problems.
• Lead incident management, including both immediate resolution and longer-term preventative fixes.
• Promote SRE best practices and standards across other engineering teams.
• Understand application behaviour end-to-end, including its business context.

Skills

Linux

Infrastructure experience

Development experience

On-premise

Education

STEM education

Job description

Client: Elite FinTech Firm - tech focused run by passionate Computer Scientists

Salary: $500,000 + Industry Leading Bonus

We're working a confidential search for a Systems Engineer at one of the most elite firms on the planet - a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of software development and production operations, where you're not just maintaining systems, you're building and owning the ones that matter most.

Responsibilities:

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of applications in production
• Automate repetitive operational work and resolve recurring systemic issues
• Conduct root cause analysis and deliver new engineering solutions to complex technical problems
• Lead incident management, including both immediate resolution and longer-term preventative fixes
• Promote SRE best practices and standards across other engineering teams
• Understand application behaviour end-to-end, including its business context

Requirements:

• Impressive Education (STEM)
• Strong Experience across Infrastructure and Development
• Extensive background in Linux/On premise environments
• General Infrastructure technology stack - this firm has multiple teams hiring across all levels!

Sells

• The chance to work with the most cutting-edge technology in the Industry
• Technologists only report to technologists
• Techies treated as top asset
• Small team size in a growing company so an ability to make a significant impact
• Constantly exciting greenfield projects in an ever-evolving environment
• No red tape
• Beautiful offices