What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at Fintal Partners?
We're partnering with a leading proprietary trading firm that's looking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer to support and optimize the infrastructure powering its low-latency trading platforms. This is an opportunity to work in an environment where reliability, automation, and performance are mission-critical, collaborating closely with software engineers, traders, and infrastructure teams to keep production systems running at peak efficiency.
What You'll Do
- Build, automate, and maintain highly available Linux-based production environments.
- Develop automation tools and operational workflows using Python.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues across mission-critical trading infrastructure.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance through automation and continuous improvement.
- Work closely with developers to enhance deployment processes, observability, and incident response.
- Support networking infrastructure, including troubleshooting connectivity, routing, DNS, and latency-related issues.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for production support.
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience administering Linux production environments.
- Excellent Python programming skills with a focus on automation and tooling.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, and network troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting high-availability, distributed systems in a production environment.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or similar.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to perform under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in financial services or trading environments is advantageous but not required.
Why Join?
- Work on some of the most performance-sensitive infrastructure in the industry.
- Collaborate with world-class engineers solving complex technical challenges.
- Competitive compensation, annual bonus, and outstanding benefits.
- Significant opportunities for career progression and technical ownership.
- Modern technology stack with a strong engineering-first culture.
Salary : $250,000 - $400,000