Senior Site Reliability Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Company Name: tastytrade
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid, 3 days/week in office)

Who You Are (Skills Needed)
• Hands-on experience designing fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems — not just describing
the patterns, but having shipped them.
• Deep understanding of one or more: distributed systems, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures,
containerization.
• Experience running gap analyses on observability/telemetry systems: identifying what's not
instrumented, not alerted on, or not visible until it's too late.
• A track record scaling systems under real production load, including capacity planning and
architectural bottleneck identification.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, with the ability to instrument
services directly.
• Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet
capture, and flow analysis.
• On-call experience on production systems and comfort building a blameless post-incident review
process.
• Working knowledge of SLOs and error budgets as a tool, not the job description; HashiCorp Nomad,
Consul, or Vault experience is a strong plus.
• Strong programming skills in a language such as Python, Ruby, Java, or similar.

Company Perks + Benefits:
• Performance Bonuses
• Stock Purchase Options
• Medical/Vision/Dental Benefits
• 401k Plan
• 20 Paid Vacation Days (plus an additional paid vacation day the month of your birthday!)
• 10 Paid Sick Days
• Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Commuter Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Wellness & Mental Health Programs
• Charitable Donation Matching
• Two Paid Volunteer Days Off
• Daily catered lunch when in the office
• Full kitchen with snacks and beverages
• In-building gym
• Shuttle to/from Metra

Base Salary Range: $180,000-$200,000 The actual salary offered will be based on the candidate's level of experience and qualifications.

Discretionary Performance Bonus: 15-20% of base salary based on individual and company performance.

About IGNA + tasty
IG 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.

From 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.

We'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.

Location: Our office is in the West Loop - Chicago's growing center of tech, great cuisine, and high-end bars.

tastytrade | tastylive | tastyfx 1330 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607