Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer
tastylive · Chicago, Illinois
Posted 14 days ago · $140,000-$180,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 14 days tastylive's roles stay open a median of 24 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 94% of tastylive's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at tastylive
- moderate 3 stale, 1 reposted of 18 open
- Hiring momentum
- 30 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from tastylive's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for tastylive.
About this role
The Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer at tastytrade will take ownership of the systems layer in a hands-on capacity, addressing incidents, designing scalable systems, and evaluating new software. Daily responsibilities include diagnosing and tuning Linux performance, troubleshooting complex issues, maintaining configuration management code, managing containerized workloads, and ensuring observability through log aggregation and alerting systems.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of tastylive as an employer.
What you need
- 6+ years in a Linux systems, infrastructure, or SRE role
- Expert-level Linux performance analysis
- Strong troubleshooting methodology
- Solid systems fundamentals
- Experience with declarative configuration management (Salt, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet)
- Production experience with Kubernetes or Nomad
Nice to have
- Production ownership of Redis or RabbitMQ
- Vault administration experience
- Elastic Stack operations at volume
- Experience in a regulated environment
- Colocation or bare-metal experience
What you get
- Performance Bonuses
- Stock Purchase Options
- Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
- 401k Plan
- 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday)
- 10 Paid Sick Days
Worth weighing
- Base salary range of $140,000-$180,000, dependent on experience
- Discretionary performance bonus of 10-12% based on individual and company performance
- The role requires a hands-on approach with a focus on deep technical knowledge rather than abstracted systems
- The job involves a significant amount of troubleshooting and postmortem analysis, which may not appeal to all candidates
Summarised from tastylive's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by tastylive on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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