Head of Site Reliability Engineering, IEX
Cross-Asset
$250-300k
This role is eligible for bonus and equity
Equity trading exchange
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Equity trading exchange
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-300k
This role is eligible for bonus and equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To innovate with a purpose: to drive trading performance for market participants.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience building, leading, and scaling global SRE, Production Engineering, or Infrastructure teams responsible for highly available, business-critical production systems
- A track record of driving technical and organizational change
- Strong understanding of Linux, networking, automation, observability, and production operations
- Experience with performance-sensitive or highly available systems; trading or exchange experience is a plus
- An intellectually curious mindset and willingness to challenge how things are done
What the job involves
- IEX is looking for a Head of SRE, Cross-Asset to lead our SRE organization as we scale our Equities business and launch Options
- We’re looking for a deeply technical, intellectually curious leader and change agent who can challenge the status quo, develop strong teams and technical leaders, and evolve how we approach reliability across our trading platforms
- This person will be responsible for the reliability and operational excellence of our production environments while helping define a scalable SRE model across asset classes. Direct exchange experience is a plus, but we are open to leaders who have owned sophisticated large-scale, complex, production engineering environments
- Our environment includes Linux, Java, C++, Python, Rust, Bash, Ansible, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and Azure, with predominantly on-prem production
- Lead and develop the SRE organization across Equities and Options
- Define and drive our strategy for reliability, observability, automation, incident management, capacity, and performance
- Partner with Core Development, Network Engineering, Market Operations, and Platform Engineering, as well as business and regulatory stakeholders to operate highly reliable, performance-sensitive trading systems
- Develop tooling, including CLI tools used to support our production systems
- Develop engineers and technical leads while creating common standards and best practices across teams
- Remain technically engaged and help teams troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, hardware, and networks
Our take
Innovations in fintech infrastructure have dramatically changed how people invest, but despite such developments, investors still face limitations when trading assets. Exchanges often list out-of-date pricing information, which limits investors' abilities to make strategic investment decisions, a problem that is heightened through knock-on effects from other unstable stock prices.
IEX provides a registered US stock exchange for investors and broker-dealers, focusing on providing a more stable trade execution experience than existing exchanges. The company achieves this through its "Speed Bump" strategy that delays trades to gather up-to-date pricing information whilst assessing them for price stability, ensuring that trades are not executed based on stale data, and helping to notify other orders to react to other stock price stability levels.
Whilst the company must share the stock exchange sector with many competitors, IEX shows great promise through its focus on maintaining pricing accuracy and stability. The company also stands out by providing a cloud platform for the selling, sharing, and use of financial data, in addition to an investment lifecycle advice tool for institutional investors.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2014
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2013
$24.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.9m
Company benefits
- 100% Employer-Paid Benefit Premiums: Medical, dental and vision benefits premiums covered 100% for employees, spouses, and dependents
- One MEdical Membership: 100% company-paid annual membership to One Medical primary care services
- Matched 401(k), Equity & Bonus Offerings: Competitive compensation packages including equity and bonus opportunities and 401(k) with annual company match
- Learning Stipend and Non-Profit Donation Match: $5000 annual learning stipend and $1000 annual match for donations to 5013(c) organizations of your choice
- In-Office Gym: Fully equipped with weights, treadmills, a Peloton bike, and locker rooms with showers
- Lunch and Learns: Have lunch on IEX and listen to co-workers present on their areas of expertise
- Hybrid Working Environments: Teams determine how and where they work – home, on the road, or in office
- Flexible Vacation Policy: With unlimited PTO, recharge your batteries and come to work ready to innovate
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: Offered for primary and secondary caregivers at the birth, adoption, or placement of a child
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Bradley Katsuyama
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founding Board Member of The Public Health Company. Spent 11 years at RBC Capital Markets, ultimately as Managing Director of US Cash Equity Trading.
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