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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Lead a team of engineers to design and maintain high-performance, low-latency infrastructure for a proprietary trading firm, focusing on monitoring, automation, and incident response.

You will lead and mentor engineers while contributing hands-on to production reliability initiatives. You will design monitoring, alerting, packet analysis, and automation systems; improve incident and change management; eliminate operational toil; investigate low-level performance issues; collaborate with global engineering and trading teams; and shape infrastructure and tooling strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and mentor engineers across teams
  • Architect and implement monitoring and alerting systems
  • Build real-time packet and flow analysis tooling
  • Develop automation frameworks for production infrastructure
  • Oversee incident management and change management
  • Improve post-incident review processes
  • Eliminate operational toil through automation and tooling
  • Investigate low-level performance issues
  • Optimize software stacks for low latency and high throughput
  • Collaborate with engineering, networking, and trading teams
  • Shape production tooling, infrastructure scaling, and vendor partnership strategy

Requirements

  • Leadership experience managing people across distributed teams
  • Experience solving reliability challenges in large-scale production environments
  • Strategic thinking and problem-solving maturity
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or an equivalent language

Benefits

  • Discretionary bonus eligibility
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
  • Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
  • Paid vacation plus paid holidays
  • Retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Wellness Programs

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