Site Reliability Engineer, Pragma
MarketAxessBase Salary
$175k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the reliable operation of algorithmic trading and sequencer-based platforms across production and UAT environments.
- Troubleshoot complex trading and production issues involving internal services, market centers, network paths, and external vendors.
- Perform release and configuration management, including binary deployments and coordinated infrastructure changes.
- Define, implement, and promote SRE best practices across the team.
- Build automation, scripting, tooling, and workflow improvements to eliminate manual operational toil.
- Conduct incident analytics and drive proactive detection, prevention, capacity, performance, and stability improvements.
- Review system performance, stability, and operational metrics with stakeholders.
- Support client onboarding, FIX certifications, and API documentation.
- Collaborate with developers, QA, infrastructure, and product teams to develop technical solutions.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability across environments.
- Conduct system performance analysis and build test harnesses.
- Mentor peers and junior engineers and contribute to internal and external technical communities.
- Incorporate stakeholder feedback into the platform roadmap and overall technical direction.
Requirements
- Strong programming experience in Java and/or Python.
- Proficiency with shell scripting, including bash or ksh.
- Experience with JVM-based distributed applications and Linux systems.
- Solid knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as with Jenkins.
- Knowledge of FIX protocol, FIX connectivity workflows, and client onboarding processes.
- Understanding of market data, exchange protocols, messaging middleware, and data distribution.
- Experience with containerized applications and AWS services.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools and related best practices.
- Strong commitment to automating the full software development lifecycle.
- Ability to use GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted code reviews.
- Knowledge of electronic trading, including equities and FX, ECNs, dark pools, equity market structure, and fixed-income trading protocols; Spot FX is a plus.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and incident-resolution skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to remain effective in high-pressure trading environments.
- Collaborative, personable, detail-oriented, and organized, with strong project execution abilities.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with a mix of office and remote work
- Free lunch and office snacks
- Competitive paid time off including vacation, personal, sick leave, and charity days
- Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- 401(k) dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $17,500
- Employee stock purchase plan with discounted MarketAxess stock
- Wellness stipend of up to $1,000 annually for gym memberships, home office equipment, and more
- Onsite healthcare access through Mount Sinai at the Hudson Yards location
- Tuition assistance and professional development programs
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
About MarketAxess
MarketAxess operates a leading, institutional electronic trading platform delivering expanded liquidity opportunities, improved execution quality and significant cost savings across global fixed-income markets. A global network of over 2,000 firms, including the world’s leading asset managers and institutional broker-dealers, leverages MarketAxess’ patented trading technology to efficiently trade bonds. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading™ marketplace is regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets, creating a unique liquidity pool for a broad range of credit market participants. Drawing on its deep data and analytical resources, MarketAxess provides automated trading solutions, market data products and a range of pre- and post-trade services. MarketAxess is headquartered in New York and has offices in London, Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, São Paulo, Hong Kong and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.marketaxess.com.