Selby Jennings has partnered with a top hedgefund to find the right front office SRE. Ideally, this person will be between 3-7 YOE, and be strongly tilted towards python/SWE development with experience in observability and reliability.
This role will primarily involve working with a cohesive team of engineers, developers, and trade support teams to build world class systems and the necessary tools to maintain and constantly improve. The position calls for someone with a mind to innovate, automate, and constantly use measurements and statistics to improve. Members of the team have backgrounds in a range of areas including software development, networking, UNIX internals and large-scale systems administration.
Responsibilities:
Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications
Own the automation of repetitive tasks and resolution of systematic issues
Identify and deliver engineering solutions for issues based on root cause analysis
Own incident management and resolution
Lead by evangelizing the SRE mindset to other teams
Provide support and ensure applications are production ready
Qualifications:
Strong background in computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
Fully proficient in at least one modern structured programming language
Comfortable with a range of current software development tools and practices (testing, source control, build systems, CI/CD etc)
A basic working understanding of TCP/IP networking, LAN and WAN as well as Linux networking
SQL and database experience a strong plus.
Some experience with building and managing highly reliable large scale systems a plus
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong entrepreneurial spirit
A passion for learning, adapting to changing requirements and technology and inventing new
approaches to hard problems
Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science or an allied field.