The posting
Trading Technologies builds professional trading software, infrastructure, and data solutions for a diverse community of professional traders and market participants. With over 500+ employees across Chicago, New York, London, Singapore, India, Japan, Australia and beyond, TT powers some of the world’s most sophisticated trading operations with low-latency, highly reliable technology.
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a development-first role focused on coding, automation, and platform stability. The ideal candidate is a skilled software developer who values a balance between building new tools and maintaining operational excellence. To ensure this balance, we adhere to the following 4 week rotation: 3 weeks pure development cycle, 1 week dispatch cycle responding to alerts and mitigating production issues. This position supports the US time zone.
What you’ll be doing
Platform Reliability & Automation
- Design, build, and maintain advanced telemetry and automation tooling to monitor global platform health and trigger automated corrective actions.
- Own and improve incident response runbooks and automated remediation workflows, reducing MTTR over time.
- Participate in on-call rotations, diagnosing and resolving system issues and escalations from the customer support team (this is an internal-facing role, not customer-facing).
- Drive continuous improvement through post-incident reviews (PIRs) and engineering initiatives that eliminate classes of failure.
Software Development
- Develop advanced monitoring software in python and GoLang.
- Contribute to full-stack troubleshooting across our React.js frontend, Python backend services (Flask, Litestar, Celery), and AWS-managed Kafka (MSK/ESK).
- Write infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, building reusable modules and submodules to provision and manage cloud resources.
Key Responsibilities
- Development Cycle (3 Weeks): Focus on coding advanced telemetry, implementing automation strategies, and building tools that proactively monitor platform health.
- Operations Cycle (1 Week): Rotate into an operational role to swiftly diagnose system issues and handle internal escalations, ensuring continuous platform stability.
- Continuous Improvement: Use insights gained during the operations week to develop automated solutions that reduce future incidents and optimize system performance.
- Supports US hours
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential Skills & Experience
*It is essential that you are able to cover US working hours
Software Development
- Extensive professional Python development experience, including object-oriented design and multi-threaded applications.
- Experience with Golang
- Substantial hands-on Terraform experience—able to author modules and submodules from scratch.
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Substantial hands-on AWS experience across EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, MSK, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, and SQS.
- Solid Linux systems experience, including monitoring critical system health parameters.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Familiarity with trading systems, financial markets, or low-latency environments
- AWS Associate-level certification or higher (preferred but not required).
- Experience with chaos engineering, SLO/SLI frameworks, or formal reliability programs.
- Prior on-call experience at a high-traffic or mission-critical platform.
- Experience building or supporting React.js applications.
- Working understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and load balancing concepts
What We Bring to the Table
Competitive Benefits & Perks in India We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.
- Health & Financial Security:Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Time Off & Flexibility:Enjoy the best of both worlds: the energy and collaboration of in-person work, combined with the convenience and focus of remote days. This is a hybrid position requiring three days of in-office collaboration per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days. Our hybrid model is designed to balance individual flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration, enhanced team cohesion, spontaneous innovation, hands-on mentorship opportunities and strengthens our company culture. 21 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, with the option to roll over unused days. One dedicated day per year for volunteering. Two professional development days per year to allow uninterrupted professional development. An additional PTO day is added during milestone anniversary years. Robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal. Generous parental leave for all parents (including adoptive parents).
- Work-Life Support & Resources:Budget for tech accessories, including monitors, headphones, keyboards, and other office equipment. Milestone anniversary bonuses.
- Wellness & Lifestyle Perks:Subsidy contributions toward gym memberships and health/wellness initiatives.
- Our Culture:Forward-thinking, culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion.
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a global capital markets platform services company providing market-leading technology for the end-to-end trading operations of Tier 1 banks, brokerages, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. With its roots in listed derivatives, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company delivers “multi-X” solutions, with “X” representing asset classes, functions, workflows, and geographies. This multi-X approach features trade execution services across futures and options, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and cryptocurrencies, augmented by solutions for data and analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA); quantitative trading; compliance and trade surveillance; clearing and post-trade allocation; and infrastructure services. The award-winning TT platform ecosystem also helps exchanges deliver innovative solutions to their market participants and technology companies to distribute their complementary offerings to Trading Technologies’ clients.
Trading Technologies is backed by leading global investment firms Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest and most experienced software investors, and 7Ridge, a global growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled businesses.
This investment supports Trading Technologies’ continued focus on product innovation, platform scalability, and long-term growth for customers and partners worldwide.
Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal-opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be, a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote, and base all employment decisions on ability rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, parental status, veteran, or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.
