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As our first Senior Site\nReliability Engineer, you'll harden the systems behind order execution and market data delivery -\ndesigning for fault tolerance, closing gaps in our telemetry, and making sure our HashiCorp Nomad-based\nservice fabric scales cleanly as trading volume grows. You'll work embedded alongside our infrastructure\nand application engineering teams, contributing directly to our Ruby, Java, and Elixir services. This is a\nrare opportunity to shape a practice and a culture from day one, on a platform where every order, quote,\nand position has to be right, because real client capital is on the line.\nWhat You'll Do (Job Responsibilities)\nBuild self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that automates repetitive\noperational work and reduces toil for Platform and Application teams.\nRun gap analysis across our observability stack to find blind spots in telemetry, logging, and alerting\ncoverage, then close them so failures surface before customers feel them.\nOwn scalability work across our HashiCorp Nomad service fabric: capacity planning, load testing,\nand identifying architectural bottlenecks before they become incidents.\nExtend our observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) with the instrumentation\nneeded to actually see the failure modes above.\nSet SLOs and error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows, once\nthe fault-tolerance and telemetry foundation is in place.\nMentor engineers across teams to build a culture of site reliability champions so the practice outlives\nany one person.\nWho You Are (Skills Needed)\nHands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems - not just describing\nthe patterns, but having shipped them.\nDeep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures,\ncontainerization.\nExperience running gap analyses on observability/telemetry systems: identifying what's not\ninstrumented, not alerted on, or not visible until it's too late.\nA track record scaling systems under real production load, including capacity planning and\narchitectural bottleneck identification.\nHands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, with the ability to instrument\nservices directly.\nStrong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet\ncapture, and flow analysis.\nOn-call experience on production systems and comfort building a blameless post-incident review\nprocess.\nWorking knowledge of SLOs and error budgets as a tool, not the job description; HashiCorp Nomad,\nConsul, or Vault experience is a strong plus.\nStrong programming skills in a language such as Python, Ruby, Java, or similar.\nCompany Perks + Benefits: \nPerformance Bonuses \nStock Purchase Options \nMedical/Vision/Dental Benefits \n401k Plan \n20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!) \n10 Paid Sick Days \nGym Membership Reimbursement \nCommuter Benefits \nPet Insurance \nWellness & Mental Health Programs \nCharitable Donation Matching \nTwo Paid Volunteer Days Off \nDaily catered lunch when in the office \nFull kitchen with snacks and beverages \nIn-building gym \nShuttle to/from Metra \nBase Salary Range: $180,000-$200,000 The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications. \nDiscretionary Performance Bonus: 15-20% of base salary based on individual and company performance. \nAbout IGNA + tasty \nIG North America is home to tastytrade, tastylive & tastyfx-a family of brands built to democratize trading and empower individual investors. Founded in Chicago by the creators of thinkorswim, acquired by London-based IG Group in 2021, we combine startup innovation with the backing of a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions - built on scale, trust, and proof. \nFrom our headquarters in Chicago's Fulton Market, our team builds award-winning trading platforms, produces live financial education content daily, and creates technology that makes complex markets accessible. tastytrade is our retail brokerage for self-directed investing and trading, with tastylive providing content to educate our customers. tastyfx is the fastest-growing forex broker in the US. tastycrypto provides self-custody digital wallets for decentralized finance. \nWe're a lean, collaborative team that values autonomy, pragmatism, and impact. Whether you're building technology, creating content, serving customers, or supporting operations, you'll work alongside people who are passionate about disrupting traditional finance and genuinely care about helping traders succeed. Our culture rewards initiative, embraces experimentation, and measures success by the value we create for our users. The bar is high - bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG|tasty - the future gets built here. \n\nLocation: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars. \ntastytrade | tastylive| tastyfx \n1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607 \n*Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they have every single qualification. Our team is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. 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