Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Linux Systems & Application Observability
tastytrade · Chicago, Illinois
Posted 8 days ago · $180,000-$200,000
or apply directly on tastytrade's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 days tastytrade's roles stay open a median of 24 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 94% of tastytrade's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at tastytrade
- 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 tastytrade's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for tastytrade.
About this role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at tastytrade, you will focus on building and maintaining reliable systems for order execution and market data delivery. Your responsibilities include designing fault-tolerant infrastructure, conducting gap analyses on observability systems, and mentoring engineers to foster a culture of site reliability. You will work closely with infrastructure and application teams, contributing to services built in Ruby, Java, and Elixir.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- 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 tastytrade 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
- Experience with HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault
What you get
- Performance Bonuses
- Stock Purchase Options
- Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
- 401k Plan
- 20 Paid Vacation Days
- 10 Paid Sick Days
Worth weighing
- Hybrid work model with 3 days in office
- Base salary range is $180,000-$200,000, which may vary based on experience
- Discretionary performance bonus of 15-20% based on individual and company performance
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Listed by tastytrade on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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