What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at Fintal Partners?
We are a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. For the last 40 years, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
We are looking for a multi-talented and passionate Trading Engineer to join our strategy development team. This person will provide high-quality technical support to traders and developers while ensuring optimal performance and reliability of trading operations.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues for proprietary trading applications
- Communicate incident status and resolutions to users in a clear and timely manner
- Monitor trading system performance, proactively identify issues, and implement solutions
- Ensure uptime and reliability of applications and systems during trading hours
- Develop automation tools and scripts to reduce operational overhead
- Perform in-depth analysis on a range of complex, multi-faceted systems (e.g., root cause)
- Partner with cross-functional teams to implement new features and services that improve performance, reliability, and scalability of trading systems
Your Skills and Experience:
- 3 years of experience in application support, site reliability engineering, or related role that focuses on supporting high-performance applications
- Proficiency with writing tools and scripts in Python and Bash required
- Demonstrated experience working in a production Kubernetes environment required
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus), databases (SQL and MongoDB), and data-driven analysis is a strong plus
- Familiarity with CentOS or related enterprise Linux distributions (e.g. RHEL, Rocky Linux) is a plus
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar field of study
- Self-driven with a passion for engineering and a natural sense of curiosity
- A team player with strong communication skills
Salary : $250,000 - $400,000