16 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build self-healing and fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling to automate operational work and reduce toil.
- Analyze and improve telemetry, logging, and alerting coverage across the observability stack.
- Own capacity planning, load testing, scalability improvements, and bottleneck identification for the HashiCorp Nomad service fabric.
- Extend Prometheus, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, and related instrumentation to expose critical failure modes.
- Define SLOs, error budgets, and multi-window burn-rate alerting for critical brokerage flows.
- Mentor engineers and establish a site reliability culture across Platform and Application teams.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing and shipping fault-tolerant, self-healing distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, Linux systems, cloud-native architectures, or containerization.
- Experience identifying gaps in observability and telemetry systems.
- Track record of scaling production systems through capacity planning and architectural bottleneck analysis.
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, including direct service instrumentation.
- Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP/multicast, packet capture, and flow analysis.
- Production on-call experience and comfort building a blameless post-incident review process.
- Working knowledge of SLOs and error budgets; HashiCorp Nomad, Consul, or Vault experience is a strong plus.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Ruby, Java, or a similar language.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with three days per week in the Chicago office.
- Performance bonuses and stock purchase options.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401k, paid vacation, and paid sick days.
- Gym membership reimbursement, in-building gym, commuter benefits, and shuttle service to/from Metra.
- Pet insurance, wellness and mental health programs, charitable donation matching, and two paid volunteer days.
- Daily catered lunch, kitchen snacks and beverages, and an additional paid vacation day during the employee’s birthday month.
About tastylive
tastylive produces a free, online financial network with eight hours of live market analysis and trading education each weekday for retail investors. Its programming focuses on options, futures, and active trading, and is closely integrated with the tastytrade brokerage ecosystem. Based in Chicago, it operates as the media arm of tastytrade, which is owned by IG Group, and monetizes through advertising, sponsorships, and driving engagement with the brokerage.