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For the latest listings and details, please visit: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ninjatrader.\nJOIN US ON OUR MISSION TO BECOME THE #1 RETAIL TRADING PLATFORM IN THE WORLD\nWelcome to the dynamic world of NinjaTrader! As an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker, we're empowering traders to take control of their financial destiny. How do we do it? We provide cutting-edge products and services that enhance the trading journey. Whether a seasoned pro or just starting out, NinjaTrader equips traders with award-winning software and brokerage services to navigate the world's leading financial markets with confidence. \nOur growth story is nothing short of exhilarating. Since 2003, NinjaTrader has been dedicated to understanding and supporting traders on their journey toward trading triumph. Through those efforts, our user base has grown to over 2 million users and we have become the number one rated futures brokerage worldwide. \nBut we're not stopping there. We're constantly evolving, pushing boundaries, and modernizing the futures industry. Our commitment to innovation means users will always have access to dynamic tools, real-time support, and a community of like-minded traders. \nSo, why work at NinjaTrader? Here, you're not just part of a team; you're part of a movement. We empower employees to reach new heights in their careers by providing a dynamic culture focused on social connection, professional development, and employee recognition initiatives. Sounds too good to be true? Take it from our employees. \nJoin us as we redefine what's possible in trading, advocate for our customers, and continue our journey toward becoming the world's top retail-focused trading platform in the world. \nWhat you'll do:\nJoin our Platform Engineering team, where you'll ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of the trading systems that power NinjaTrader. You'll deploy single- and multi-cluster services to Kubernetes, partnering with Product Engineering and Technical Operations to strengthen monitoring, reduce operational toil, and keep our revenue-generating systems running for traders around the world. Working alongside technical leadership, you'll help maintain 99.95% uptime and high performance across the trading platform.\nIn this role you will:\nServe as the technical lead for the SRE function, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers across reliability initiatives\nAnalyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues with a systematic problem-solving approach to keep revenue-generating systems running\nParticipate in a weekly 12x7 on-call rotation, including weekend deployments and checkouts before markets open on Sundays\nPerform initial root cause analysis and remediation of production incidents\nBuild tools that automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and incident responses with the goal of minimal human involvement\nDesign reliable monitoring and alerting systems with Product and QA teams, establishing and tracking SLIs/SLOs across web, mobile, desktop, and trading platforms\nLeverage Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform to automate provisioning, scaling, and management across all platforms\nCollaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to deliver features on time while meeting scalability, security, and performance requirements\nImplement security and compliance best practices (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS) throughout the software delivery lifecycle for web, mobile, and desktop deployments\nWhat you'll need:\n8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles\nExpertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration\nHands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or equivalent)\nProficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, or Go) and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Helm\nHands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including in-depth knowledge of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments\nKnowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar\nStrong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams and mentor junior engineers\nBonus points for:\nTrading industry experience\nContributions to open-source projects\nCompensation:\nThe salary range for this role will be $160,000.00 - $210,000.00 USD. In addition, this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 12%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%).\nSalary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation package offered by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader offers a 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 23 days per year plus seven paid holidays.\nLocation:\nThis role is based in Chicago, IL. *There may be remote flexibility for exceptional candidates in the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin.\nHybrid:\nFor Chicago-based employees, we follow a hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays. 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