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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Autonomous Recruiter LLC
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithmic Trading, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Profiling, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Centers, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Linux, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), RabbitMQ, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, TCP/IP, Grafana, Containerization, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Cassandra, Bare Metal, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Terraform, Data Pipelines, OpenSearch, Docker
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/52b02dbf-87c4-4645-a2c8-758ab6deb202/site-reliability-engineer

## About the Role

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 * Strong software engineering skills, ideally in Python and/or Go.
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 * Deep Linux expertise, including systems troubleshooting, performance analysis and production operations.
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 * Experience building automation, internal tooling or infrastructure platforms in a production environment.
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 * Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows and modern deployment practices.
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 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, Ansible or equivalent.
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 * Strong observability experience using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch or similar.
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 * Experience supporting distributed, high-availability or performance-sensitive systems.
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 * Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, latency, throughput and troubleshooting.
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 * Ability to debug issues across the full stack: application, operating system, network, storage and infrastructure.
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 * Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, ownership-driven mindset.
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 * Exposure to trading systems, market data, exchange connectivity, colocation or real-time data pipelines.
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 * Kubernetes, Docker, EKS or on-premises container platforms.
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 * Cloud experience with AWS, including EC2, S3, networking and managed services.
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 * Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ or other streaming/message-queue technologies.
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 * Familiarity with C++, Rust or low-level performance profiling.
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 * Experience with time-series databases, ClickHouse, Cassandra or other high-performance data stores.
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 * Experience with configuration management, bare-metal provisioning or data-centre automation.
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## Description

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You will work across software engineering, infrastructure and production operations to improve the reliability, performance and scalability of a global trading platform. This is a development-first reliability role: you will write production-quality automation and tooling, improve observability, streamline deployments and help eliminate classes of operational failure.

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You will collaborate closely with trading-system engineers, quant researchers, infrastructure engineers and platform teams in a fast-moving, low-latency environment.