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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** D R W Inc
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Trading, Application Layers, Bash Shell, Communications Protocols, Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, Data Centers, Linux, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Multicasting, Reliability Engineering, Ruby, Software Engineering, TCP/IP, Data Logging, Scripting, Grafana, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/4cd79e25-268c-4a3e-bdf6-dddb9714d4bf

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical background.
 * 3-10+ years of hands-on software development or SRE Experience
 * Demonstrated experience with observability tools - logging, metrics and tracing
 * Hands on development experience in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby
 * An automation-first approach to problem solving - you understand that manual processes don't scale, and your instinct is to eliminate them before they become a bottleneck.
 * Demonstrated knowledge of network communications including comprehensive understanding of the Linux TCP-IP stack, use of 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 and accountability, reliability, and strong follow through.
 * Positive AI mentality and experience with AI agents to accelerate SRE tasks.

## Description

The Algorithmic Trading Team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer for our Chicago office. The SRE team is critical to the success of our trading - ensuring that our production trading systems, test environment and research pipeline are working flawlessly., * Work with software engineers and traders to provide 24/7 first line support of our trading, testing, and research environment.

 * Proactively monitor and identify issues before they impact trading. Define and automate observability around application SLAs and build anomaly detectors that surface problems early.
 * Oversee and maintain our test trading environment. Keep the environment running smoothly and pursue automation of routine interventions required to maintain a stable test platform for development.
 * Standardize CI/CD and operational processes across development teams to reduce friction and speed up delivery. Improve deployment scripts and release verification processes.
 * Perform stress tests and verify SLAs under load. Work with application and devops engineers to design and improve support for this type of testing.
 * Work closely with traders, engineers, system administrators, data centers, networking, and other shared services.


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