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Site Reliability Engineer

Databento

Skills

Required

  • SRE / DevOps / backend engineering
  • configuration management / infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • financial data / algorithmic trading
  • observability tooling
  • logging
  • metrics
  • Prometheus
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Logstash
  • Python
  • Linux

Preferred

  • Database schema design
  • query optimization
  • alerting
  • incident response best practices
  • containerization
  • high availability deployment
  • Docker
  • Podman
  • Compose
  • Kubernetes

Join our Backend Engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer. You'll be responsible for the uptime, performance, and observability of our platform, and help set the standard for how the rest of engineering builds, ships, and monitors software. You'll work on a wide range of problems, including petabyte-scale data processing and SaaS issues like customer management and billing.

Responsibilities

  • Assurer la disponibilité, la performance et l'observabilité de la plateforme, et établir des normes pour le développement et le déploiement de logiciels.
  • Mettre en œuvre et maintenir des pratiques de fiabilité et d'exploitation pour les autres développeurs, sans ralentir leur travail.
  • Participer à la rotation d'astreinte, diriger la réponse aux incidents et réaliser des revues post-incident.
  • Experience with containerization and high availability deployment (e.g. Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, k3s)

Requirements

  • Familiarity with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform) is also helpful
  • Good communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace

An interest in financial data or algorithmic trading

  • Hands-on experience with observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Logstash, Loki, Vector)
  • Strong proficiency in Python, including application development and performance optimization
  • Bonus if you've done HTTP benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning
  • 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
  • Full-time experience in SRE, DevOps, or backend engineering, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup
  • Comfortable with Linux debugging and profiling tools such as strace, perf, eBPF, ss, and gdb

Preferred

  • Database schema design and query optimization skills are nice to have
  • Experience with alerting and incident response best practices is a plus