What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at Longbridge?
About Us
Longbridge is a fast-growing online brokerage platform on a mission to make investing smarter, simpler, and more accessible for everyone.
As part of our global expansion, we’re looking for a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, scale, and safeguard the reliability of our next-generation financial platforms. This is a high-impact role where you’ll partner closely with product and engineering teams across the globe.
What You’ll Do
- Own system reliability: Design, implement, and operate highly available, secure distributed systems to meet strict uptime and performance targets.
- Build automation at scale: Develop and enforce best practices in monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
- Partner globally: Work with development teams from design through deployment, ensuring reliability and resiliency are built in from day one.
- Lead incident response: Drive on-call processes, conduct root-cause analysis, and continuously reduce MTTR and failure recurrence.
- Future-proof our stack: Evaluate and adopt modern cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, AWS/GCP) to keep systems secure and scalable.
- Stress-test and safeguard: Lead disaster recovery, chaos testing, and capacity planning for critical wealth management services.
What We’re Looking For
- 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or production engineering roles.
- Strong background in AWS (or GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling.
- Solid Linux administration skills and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven ability in incident management and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across remote/global teams.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving fintech/tech startup environment.
- Bonus: Experience supporting regulated financial systems; ability to communicate in Chinese to collaborate with Asia-based colleagues is a plus
Why Join Us
- Shape the reliability foundation of our U.S. product launch in wealth tech.
- Opportunity to build systems from the ground up and influence technical direction.
- Competitive compensation package and growth opportunities.