Site Reliability Engineer, Early Career

Reposted 12 Days Ago
Chicago, IL
Hybrid
150K-190K Annually
Junior
Fintech • Software
IMC is a proprietary trading firm powered by research and technology.
The Role
The Site Reliability Engineer will optimize development infrastructure, manage source control systems, and support production incidents while mentoring junior staff.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Platform Engineering organization at IMC Trading is focused on accelerating tech team workflows through providing self-service tools, services, documentation, and support. Platform Engineering is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the underlying runtime platforms that IMC's software applications depend on. The mission is to streamline development processes, establish a consistent technical foundation across regions, and empower teams with the necessary resources to innovate efficiently.
Platform Engineering is a global team and acts as a bridge between the technical requirements of application development and the practical aspects of deploying and maintaining those applications in a production environment, minimizing friction, and ensuring that tech teams can operate seamlessly and drive progress forward.
The Platform Engineering team is seeking a versatile and passionate Site Reliability Engineer to play a critical role in enhancing and optimizing our developer services infrastructure. You will join a highly experienced team that supports a wide array of critical systems, including source control, continuous integration pipelines, and observability tools, all of which are vital to the stability and performance of our trading platforms.
Your Core Responsibilities:
  • Optimize and enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of our development services infrastructure.
  • Administer and oversee source control systems, continuous integration services, artifact repositories, metrics, logging, observability tools, and related systems, both in on-premises environments and leveraging AWS cloud services.
  • Integrate and deploy new Cloud SaaS solutions, collaborating cross-functionally to deliver innovative tools and functionalities to our teams.
  • Partner with development teams to align system capabilities with their evolving needs, ensuring seamless operations and support, boosting organizational efficiency
  • Diagnose and resolve production incidents swiftly, supporting Global Operations in a 'follow the sun' model, working with regional peers to guarantee continuous 24/7 system availability.
  • Identify and eliminate system performance bottlenecks and drive uptime improvements through proactive automation, monitoring, and performance tuning.
  • Lead and mentor junior team members, fostering their growth and technical expertise.

Your Skills and Experience:
  • 1-3 years of work experience in a relevant role
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
  • Strong programming experience in Python or Go; Shell scripting is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix Systems
  • Experience in operating and enhancing services across various environments, designing and implementing disaster recovery plans, high availability (HA) configurations, and failover strategies.
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration Tools, including Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or TeamCity, including the automation of build, test, and deployment processes.
  • Understanding of security principles and best practices, including experience managing secrets and compliance frameworks

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.
Salary Range
$150,000-$190,000 USD
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Top Skills

AWS
Docker
Gitlab Ci
Go
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Python
Shell Scripting
Teamcity
Unix

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,622 Employees
Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Why Work With Us

At IMC, the best ideas win, regardless of hierarchy. We’ve done away with artificial barriers and prioritize our employees. As a result, our people can explore their potential without limits, developing and implementing the systems and strategies that have made us one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.

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