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Site Reliability Engineer
·Israel
On-siteFull-timeBackend Developmentcapital marketsFinancial Services
A diversified trading firm is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for its Tel Aviv office to support algorithmic trading operations. The role involves ensuring the reliability of production trading systems, test environments, and research pipelines through proactive monitoring, automation, and cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Provide 24/7 first-line support for trading, testing, and research environments in collaboration with software engineers and traders.
- Proactively monitor systems, define and automate observability around application SLAs, and build anomaly detectors to surface issues early.
- Oversee and maintain the test trading environment, pursuing automation of routine interventions to ensure stability.
- Standardize CI/CD and operational processes across development teams to reduce friction and accelerate delivery.
- Improve deployment scripts and release verification processes.
- Perform stress tests and verify SLAs under load, working with application and DevOps engineers to enhance testing support.
- Collaborate closely with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking, and other shared services.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical background.
- 3+ years of hands-on software development or SRE experience.
- Demonstrated experience with observability tools for logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Hands-on development experience in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Ruby.
- An automation-first approach to problem-solving, with a focus on eliminating manual processes.
- Demonstrated knowledge of network communications, including comprehensive understanding of the Linux TCP-IP stack, multicast networking, and network protocol interactions.
- Solid diagnostic capabilities from the application layer through the network and low-level hardware.
- Experience with network capture and time synchronization.
- High level of ownership, accountability, reliability, and strong follow-through.
- Positive AI mentality and experience with AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks.