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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Tastylive, Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Data-Flow Analysis, Python (Programming Language), Linux Kernel, Multicasting, Networking Basics, Packet Analyzer, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Prometheus, Ruby, TCP/IP, Grafana, Elixir
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c2e718aaed30674a

## About the Role

* Production-quality coding experience in Ruby and/or Java, plus Python for automation.
 * A track record embedding SRE practices within engineering teams, including SLOs, error budgets, and burn-rate alerting.
 * 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.
 * Experience influencing standards across teams you don't own; HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault experience is a strong plus.

## Description

* Define customer-meaningful SLOs and set error budgets with multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows, including order execution and market data delivery.
 * Author tastytrade's first reliability standards, including SLO methodology, error-budget policy, an observability instrumentation guide, and a Production Readiness Review (PRR) checklist.
 * Contribute reliability patterns, such as circuit breakers, retries with backoff, bulkheads, and load-shedding, directly into our Ruby, Java, and Elixir services.
 * Extend our observability stack (Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry) and guide teams as they scale workloads across our HashiCorp Nomad service fabric.
 * Design and run tabletop exercises and fault-injection testing to stress-test the platform against real-world failure and volatility scenarios.
 * Mentor engineers across teams to build a culture of site reliability champions so the practice outlives any one person.


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