Syndr is hiring a
Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Syndr, you will focus on monitoring and supporting production trading applications and infrastructure, respond to technical issues affecting users, own critical parts of the software development life cycle, maintain and optimize platform infrastructure, and work with pen-testing and software security audit firms. Requirements include professional experience in a DevOps/SRE role, expertise in Linux and Docker, experience with CI/CD pipelines, 2+ years of experience with a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP, strong advocacy for process automation, infrastructure as code, and understanding of security-hardened production workloads. Preferred requirements include experience maintaining and migrating from a cloud environment to an offsite data center, experience with offsite colo providers, experience working on trading systems and infrastructure, experience building tooling or applications to enhance the developer experience, familiarity with Golang and/or NodeJS.

Requirements

• Professional experience in a DevOps/SRE role working directly with engineers
• Expert knowledge of Linux and Docker
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, including Docker containers, AWS ERC, ECS clusters, Kubernetes, load balancers, etc
• 2+ years of professional experience working with a major cloud provider such as AWS or GCP
• Strong advocate of process automation, orchestration, and infrastructure as code, e.g., Ansible, Salt, Terraform, etc
• Strong understanding of how to manage security-hardened and critical production workloads
• Familiarity with basic scripting languages like Bash or Python

Responsibilities

• Monitor and support production trading applications and infrastructure
• Respond quickly to any technical issues affecting users trading on Syndr
• Establish themselves as an SRE subject matter expert enabling cross-functional teams to code, build, and ship rapidly
• Own critical parts of our software development life cycle, such as building pipelines, testing, and deployment
• Be proactive in identifying, proposing, and improving areas of the SDLC
• Be accountable for the cloud-native deployment environments across dev, staging, and production
• Maintain, secure, and optimize our platform infrastructure to meet our business needs while maintaining high reliability and a target of zero downtime with only pre-planned scheduled maintenance updates

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining and migrating from a cloud environment to an offsite data center
• Experience with offsite colo providers
• Experience working on trading systems and infrastructure
• Experience building tooling, scripts, or applications to enhance the developer experience
• Familiarity with Golang and/or NodeJS

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to work with a small, focused & ambitious team on very interesting projects and get the level of responsibility and ownership that would be unlikely at any other project
• Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional yet collaborative and entrepreneurial
• Sense of a Shared Mission
• Work on the latest technology, equipment, and web3 stack with dedicated budgets
• Flexible working hours
• Annual team retreat