Senior Site Reliability Engineer, tastytrade
Linux Systems & Application Observability
$180-200k
+ Discretionary Performance Bonuses + Stock Purchase Options
3 days a week in office
Options trading, futures & stock trading brokerage
Open for applications
Options trading, futures & stock trading brokerage
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-200k
+ Discretionary Performance Bonuses + Stock Purchase Options
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help traders succeed through sophisticated technology, favorable pricing and exceptional customer service.
Role
Who you are
- Production-quality coding experience in Ruby and/or Java, plus Python for automation
- A track record embedding SRE practices within engineering teams, including SLOs, error budgets, and burn-rate alerting
- 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
- Experience influencing standards across teams you don't own; HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault experience is a strong plus
- Don't 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 if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway
What the job involves
- 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, you'll define what reliability means at tastytrade, from customer-meaningful SLOs on order execution and market data delivery to the error-budget policy and observability standards that guide every engineering team that follows
- You'll work embedded alongside our infrastructure and application engineering teams, contributing reliability patterns directly into our Ruby, Java, and Elixir services and helping them scale across our HashiCorp Nomad-based service fabric
- 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
- Define customer-meaningful SLOs and set error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows, including order execution and market data delivery
- Author tastytrade's first reliability standards, including SLO methodology, error-budget policy, an observability instrumentation guide, and a Production Readiness Review (PRR) checklist
- Contribute reliability patterns, such as circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, and load-shedding, directly into our Ruby, Java, and Elixir services
- Extend our observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) and guide teams as they scale workloads across our HashiCorp Nomad service fabric
- Design and run tabletop exercises and fault-injection testing to stress-test the platform against real-world failure and volatility scenarios
- Mentor engineers across teams to build a culture of site reliability champions so the practice outlives any one person
Our take
With the aim of "making investing fun”, Unicorn-verified tastytrade has amassed a following in the hundreds of thousands, delivering technology and support for "do-it-yourself" investors.
Founded in 2011, the company supplies not only a trading platform but trading education resources as well. It has launched dozens of podcasts and online video channels focusing on investment strategies and trading, as well as learning courses for those looking to get their start in the space.
Acquired by IG Group, a global player in trading, in 2021, tastytrade has since employed this added strength to scale up its business and expand into international markets. This increasing visibility - at a time when markets are especially unpredictable and its platform an invaluable asset - has enabled tastytrade to continue its upward momentum, reporting record demand in 2025. This strong performance highlights the growing importance of its platform in an ever-evolving market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2018
$20m
SERIES C
Jun 2013
$7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $47m
Company benefits
- 3 Medical Plans Choice
- Dental & Vision Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays - All Market Holidays Off
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Generous Parental Leave
- Disability Leave & Disability Insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Wellness & Mental Health Programs
- Performance Bonuses
- Subsidized Engineering Training Program
- Stock Purchase Options
- Gym Membership Reimbursement
- Charitable Donation Matching
- Healthcare FSA
- Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
- Daily Catered Lunch
- Fully-stocked Kitchen with Snacks and Drinks
- Onsite Gym
- Casual Dress
- Sustainable Work Day
- CTA stop a block away, Shuttle to/from Metra
- Shared rooftop with greenery overlooking the city
- West Loop Location - Chicago's Tech Center
Company HQ
Fulton Market, Chicago, IL
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