- Full-time experience in SRE, DevOps, or backend engineering, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup.
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Logstash, Loki, Vector).
- Experience with containerization and high availability deployment (e.g. Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, k3s).
- Strong proficiency in Python, including application development and performance optimization.
- Comfortable with Linux debugging and profiling tools such as strace, perf, eBPF, ss, and gdb.
- A track record of measurable impact in a recent role, such as improving performance by X%, speeding something up Nx, or saving $Y per year.
- Experience with alerting and incident response best practices is a plus.
- Familiarity with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform) is also helpful.
- Bonus if you've done HTTP benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning.
- Database schema design and query optimization skills are nice to have.
- Good communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace.
- An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading.
We offer health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits, as well as 401(k) matching for full-time employees. We accommodate 100% remote work, with teammates living around the globe and paid in their local currency.
The base salary range for this role is $150,000–$215,000, benchmarked to Tier 1 locations in each country. Total compensation may also include bonuses, commissions, and equity, depending on the role.
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