# Staff Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [NinjaTrader](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ninjatrader)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash, Go, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
**Posted:** 2026-08-18

> Leads site reliability initiatives for trading systems, improving availability, scalability, monitoring, incident response, and infrastructure automation. The role requires 8+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience and strong expertise in Kubernetes, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical lead for the SRE function, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers across reliability initiatives.
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues to keep revenue-generating systems running.
- Participate in a weekly 12x7 on-call rotation, including weekend deployments and checkouts before markets open on Sundays.
- Perform initial root cause analysis and remediation of production incidents.
- Build tools to automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and incident responses with minimal human involvement.
- Design reliable monitoring and alerting systems with Product and QA teams, establishing and tracking SLIs/SLOs across web, mobile, desktop, and trading platforms.
- Deploy single- and multi-cluster services to Kubernetes.
- Use infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform to automate provisioning, scaling, and management across platforms.
- Collaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing features.
- Implement security and compliance best practices, including SOC 2 and PCI DSS, throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or equivalent.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go, and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Helm.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including cloud networking, security, and identity management.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills, including the ability to influence technical decisions and mentor junior engineers.

## Nice-to-haves
- Trading industry experience.
- Contributions to open-source projects.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: **$160,000.00–$210,000.00 USD**.
- Annual target bonus of **12%**, based on individual and company/team performance.
- 401(k) plan with up to a **3.5% company match**.
- **23 days** of annual paid time off plus seven paid holidays.
- Additional benefits include generous PTO, conditional holidays, one annual service day, paid parental bonding leave, health, vision, and dental coverage, and life and disability insurance covered by the company.
- Hybrid schedule for Chicago-based employees: in-office Tuesday through Thursday and remote Mondays and Fridays, plus additional flex remote days and office-optional weeks.

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