Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define customer-meaningful SLOs and error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows, including order execution and market data delivery.
• Author reliability standards covering SLO methodology, error-budget policy, observability instrumentation, and Production Readiness Reviews.
• Contribute reliability patterns—including circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, and load-shedding—directly to Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.
• Extend the observability stack and guide teams as they scale workloads across the HashiCorp Nomad service fabric.
• Design and run tabletop exercises and fault-injection testing for real-world failure and volatility scenarios.
• Mentor engineers across teams and build a culture of site reliability champions.

Requirements

• Production-quality coding experience in Ruby and/or Java, plus Python for automation.
• Experience embedding SRE practices within engineering teams, including SLOs, error budgets, and burn-rate alerting.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, including direct service instrumentation.
• Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet capture, and flow analysis.
• Production on-call experience and comfort building a blameless post-incident review process.
• Experience influencing standards across teams without direct ownership.

Nice to Have

• Experience with HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $180,000–$200,000.
• Discretionary performance bonus: 15–20% of base salary based on individual and company performance.
• Performance bonuses and stock purchase options.
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits.
• 401(k) plan.
• 20 paid vacation days, plus an additional paid vacation day during the month of the employee's birthday.
• 10 paid sick days.
• Gym membership reimbursement and in-building gym.
• Commuter benefits and shuttle service to and from Metra.
• Pet insurance.
• Wellness and mental health programs.
• Charitable donation matching.
• Two paid volunteer days off.
• Daily catered lunch and kitchen snacks and beverages when in the office.