Senior Site Reliability Engineer (US Hours)

Job Summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a development-first role focused on coding, automation, and platform stability. The ideal candidate is a skilled software developer who values a balance between building new tools and maintaining operational excellence. To ensure this balance, we adhere to the following 4 week rotation: 3 weeks pure development cycle, 1 week dispatch cycle responding to alerts and mitigating production issues. This position supports the US time zone.

Responsibilities

Platform Reliability & Automation

• Design, build, and maintain advanced telemetry and automation tooling to monitor global platform health and trigger automated corrective actions.
• Own and improve incident response runbooks and automated remediation workflows, reducing MTTR over time.
• Participate in on-call rotations, diagnosing and resolving system issues and escalations from the customer support team (this is an internal-facing role, not customer-facing).
• Drive continuous improvement through post-incident reviews (PIRs) and engineering initiatives that eliminate classes of failure.

Software Development

• Develop advanced monitoring software in python and GoLang.
• Contribute to full-stack troubleshooting across our React.js frontend, Python backend services (Flask, Litestar, Celery), and AWS-managed Kafka (MSK/ESK).
• Write infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, building reusable modules and submodules to provision and manage cloud resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Development Cycle (3 Weeks): Focus on coding advanced telemetry, implementing automation strategies, and building tools that proactively monitor platform health.
• Operations Cycle (1 Week): Rotate into an operational role to swiftly diagnose system issues and handle internal escalations, ensuring continuous platform stability.
• Continuous Improvement: Use insights gained during the operations week to develop automated solutions that reduce future incidents and optimize system performance.
• Supports US hours

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential Skills & Experience

It is essential that you are able to cover US working hours

• Extensive professional Python development experience, including object-oriented design and multi-threaded applications.
• Experience with Golang
• Substantial hands-on Terraform experience-able to author modules and submodules from scratch.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Substantial hands-on AWS experience across EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, MSK, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, and SQS.
• Solid Linux systems experience, including monitoring critical system health parameters.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Familiarity with trading systems, financial markets, or low-latency environments
• AWS Associate-level certification or higher (preferred but not required).
• Experience with chaos engineering, SLO/SLI frameworks, or formal reliability programs.
• Prior on-call experience at a high-traffic or mission-critical platform.
• Experience building or supporting React.js applications.
• Working understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and load balancing concepts

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