Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Core
Operate and improve the reliability of a trading-critical brokerage platform, with a specific focus on deepening ownership of the PostgreSQL database layer.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Database focus)
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes workloads, observability stack, and PostgreSQL data layer
Domain
Fintech / Brokerage / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes operations, GitOps, PostgreSQL (performance tuning, online migrations, HA/DR), Linux, observability stack, incident response, Go or Python
Preferred skills
Large-scale OLTP PostgreSQL, typed SQL access layers (pgx, gorm, sqlc), messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redpanda), security/compliance (SOC 2)
Technologies
Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Go, Python, Linux, GitOps, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redpanda
Responsibilities
Operate production services including oncall, incident response, and postmortems; Define and refine SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; Strengthen observability across metrics, logs, and traces; Ship infrastructure as code; Manage PostgreSQL performance, schema migrations, and HA/DR; Mentor engineers on reliability and database fundamentals
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC