Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Linux Systems & Application Observability
tastylive · Chicago, Illinois
Posted 8 days ago · $180,000-$200,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 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
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at tastytrade, you will focus on enhancing the reliability of the brokerage platform by designing fault-tolerant systems and improving observability. Your role involves collaborating with infrastructure and application teams to automate operational tasks, conduct gap analyses on telemetry, and ensure scalability of services. You will also mentor other engineers to foster a culture of reliability within the organization.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- 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
- Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures, containerization
- Experience running gap analyses on observability/telemetry systems
- Track record scaling systems under real production load
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals
Nice to have
- HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault 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
- Hybrid work model with 3 days in office
- Base salary range provided, but actual salary depends on experience
- Discretionary performance bonus based on individual and company performance
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Listed by tastylive on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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