Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

tastytrade, part of IG Group, is looking for its first Senior Site Reliability Engineer to shape the reliability practice behind a high‑volume brokerage platform. You will define SLOs, error‑budget policies, and observability standards while working closely with infrastructure and application teams.

Key responsibilities

• Define customer‑meaningful SLOs and error budgets for order execution and market‑data flows, with multi‑window burn‑rate alerting.
• Embed reliability patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and load‑shedding into Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.
• Extend and maintain the observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) across a HashiCorp Nomad‑based fabric.
• Mentor engineers across teams to foster a culture of site‑reliability champions.

Required profile

• Proven experience writing production‑grade code in Ruby and/or Java, with Python for automation.
• Track record implementing SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, burn‑rate alerts) within engineering teams.
• Hands‑on expertise with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana for service instrumentation.
• Strong Linux internals knowledge and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP, packet capture, flow analysis).
• On‑call experience and ability to lead blameless post‑incident reviews.

Required skills

• Ruby
• Java
• Python
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Linux
• TCP/IP networking
• UDP/multicast
• Packet capture and flow analysis
• HashiCorp Nomad
• Consul (plus)
• Vault (plus)

What we offer

• Performance bonuses and stock purchase options
• Medical, vision, dental benefits
• 401(k) plan
• 20 paid vacation days plus a birthday‑day off
• Gym membership reimbursement and commuter benefits
• Pet insurance, wellness & mental‑health programs
• Daily catered lunch and fully stocked kitchen