Senior Site Reliability Engineer Linux Systems & Application Observability

Company Name: tastytrade

Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Linux Systems & Application Observability

Location: Chicago IL (Hybrid 3 days/week in office)

Role Summary
Come join tastytrade part of IG Group as we build the reliability practice behind the brokerage platform
that active options futures and equities traders rely on every market day. As our first Senior Site
Reliability Engineer youll harden the systems behind order execution and market data delivery
designing for fault tolerance closing gaps in our telemetry and making sure our HashiCorp Nomad-based
service fabric scales cleanly as trading volume grows. Youll work embedded alongside our infrastructure
and application engineering teams contributing directly to our Ruby Java and Elixir services. This is a
rare opportunity to shape a practice and a culture from day one on a platform where every order quote
and position has to be right because real client capital is on the line.

What Youll Do (Job Responsibilities)
Build self-healing fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that automates repetitive
operational work and reduces toil for Platform and Application teams.
Run gap analysis across our observability stack to find blind spots in telemetry logging and alerting
coverage then close them so failures surface before customers feel them.
Own scalability work across our HashiCorp Nomad service fabric: capacity planning load testing
and identifying architectural bottlenecks before they become incidents.
Extend our observability stack (Prometheus Honeycomb OpenTelemetry) with the instrumentation
needed to actually see the failure modes above.
Set SLOs and error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows once
the fault-tolerance and telemetry foundation is in place.
Mentor engineers across teams to build a culture of site reliability champions so the practice outlives
any one person.

Who You Are (Skills Needed)
Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant self-healing distributed systems not just describing
the patterns but having shipped them.
Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems Linux systems cloud-native architectures
containerization.
Experience running gap analyses on observability/telemetry systems: identifying whats not
instrumented not alerted on or not visible until its too late.
A track record scaling systems under real production load including capacity planning and
architectural bottleneck identification.
Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry Prometheus and Grafana with the ability to instrument
services directly.
Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals including TCP/IP UDP/multicast packet
capture and flow analysis.
On-call experience on production systems and comfort building a blameless post-incident review
process.
Working knowledge of SLOs and error budgets as a tool not the job description; HashiCorp Nomad
Consul or Vault experience is a strong plus.
Strong programming skills in a language such as Python Ruby Java or similar.

Company Perks Benefits:

• Performance Bonuses
• Stock Purchase Options
• Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
• 401k Plan
• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus anadditionalpaid vacationdaythe month of your birthday!)
• 10 Paid Sick Days
• Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Commuter Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs
• Charitable Donation Matching
• Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
• Daily catered lunch when in the office
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
• In-building gym
• Shuttle to/from Metra

Base Salary Range:$180000-$200000 The actual salary offered will be based on the candidates level of experience and qualifications.

Discretionary Performance Bonus: 15-20% of base salary based on individual and company performance.

About IGNA tasty
IG North America is home to tastytradetastylive &tastyfxa family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual investors. Founded in Chicago by the creators ofthinkorswimacquiredby London-based IG Group in 2021 we combine startup innovation with the backing ofaFTSE 100 fintechoperatingacross five continents serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions built on scale trust and proof.

From our headquarters in Chicagos Fulton Market our team builds award-winning trading platforms produces live financial education content daily and creates technology that makes complex markets accessible. tastytrade is our retail brokerage for self-directed investing and trading withtastyliveproviding content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the self-custody digital wallets for decentralized finance.

Werea lean collaborative team that values autonomy pragmatism and impact. Whetheryourebuilding technology creating content serving customers or supporting operationsyoullwork alongside people who are passionate about disrupting traditional finance and genuinely care about helping traders succeed. Our culture rewards initiative embraces experimentation and measures success by the value we create for our bar is high bring a curious and forward-thinkingmindsetandwellgive you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IGtasty the future gets built here.

Location:Our office is in the West Loop - Chicagos growing center of tech great cuisine and high-end bars.

tastytradetastylive tastyfx
1330 W Fulton Market Chicago IL 60607

*Dont meet every single requirement Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification. Our team is dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace so ifyoureexcited about thisrolebut your experiencedoesntalign perfectly we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!