Site Reliability Engineer, IEX
$100-150k
+ This role is eligible for bonus and equity
Equity trading exchange
Be an early applicant
Equity trading exchange
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-150k
+ 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
- IEX is looking for our next System Reliability Engineer – The right person for the job will be an insatiably curious tinkerer with technical chops, who has done this type of role before
- Bonus points if you take an interest in the stock market, though finance experience is not necessary - only a willingness to learn all about the inner workings of the market is required
- Experience with any layer in our stack (Linux, Java, C++) is highly beneficial, particularly around the areas of performance and capacity
- Experience in an agile environment is a plus, and a willingness to tackle the challenge of innovating within a regulated environment is key
- Automation experience with Ansible or a similar configuration management tools
- Hands-on experience with Linux, python, bash, and git
- Experience supporting large, complex, and distributed systems
- Host side networking
- Packet level understanding of network traffic, working experience troubleshooting with packet captures, etc
- TCP/IP Stack, routes
- Multicast
- General familiarity with Data Center workflows and working with DC personnel to implement changes
- Hardware familiarity
- Arista and Cisco switches and their CLI’s
- Corvil
- Solarflare, Mellanox
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be constantly optimizing and automating our processes and systems to improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Plus, you will take on real-time responsibilities, such as monitoring, incident management, and recovery
- Coding and scripting are part of our daily life (we like python, bash, ansible and rust)
- You will be exposed to how our technology interacts with the business to gain a deep understanding of application logic and business data workflows
- Responsible for the technical operations of our trading platform
- Participate in the engineering process as we design, build, and manage our systems
- Build tools to monitor and automate processes
- Be a core contributor in our change management and learning review processes
- Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - hardware, software, application, and network
- Document current and future configuration processes and policies
- Translate customer needs and projected product utilization to operational reliability targets
- Guides other functions (e.g., development, market operations, business development, subscribers, etc.) on reliability techniques, application, and system functionality
- Educate and mentor team/company on operational best practices
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, focussing 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 show 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
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2014
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2013
$24.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.9m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits premiums covered 100% for employees, spouses, and dependents
- Annual membership to One Medical primary care services
- Matched 401(k)
- Equity and bonus opportunities
- $5000 annual learning stipend
- $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
- Hybrid working
- Unlimited PTO
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers at the birth, adoption, or placement of a child
Company values
- Think Big, Do Good - We measure success by impact on the industries we serve and the communities we touch
- Be Gritty - Resilience and perserverance are in our DNA. We meet challenges head-on
- Win Together - We celebrate our wins as one, learn from our mistakes together, and move together as a team
- Invent & Reinvent - A growth mindset is foundational to who we are. IEX is a place for creativity and continual learning
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
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Leadership
Bradley Katsuyama
(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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