Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

About UsLTSE supports companies in all stages of growth committed to long-term value creation, and the investors who share their values. We offer software and services for company-building and pursuing a path to the public markets, a U.S. national securities exchange for new and existing public companies, and a coalition for the exchange of ideas between companies and like-minded investors.
We believe in the power of a public market that supports continuous success for all stakeholders, including employees, investors, and their communities. We’re helping innovation and value creation flourish for now and far into the future through long-term investment, experimentation, and sustainable scaling.
Lead LTSE investors include The Space Between, Founders Fund, Collaborative Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Obvious Ventures, Uprising, and Initialized. LTSE was founded by Eric Ries, an entrepreneur, New York Times-bestselling author, and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology.
The RoleThis is a great opportunity to join the team responsible for the reliability and resiliency of one of the newest US stock exchanges. You’ll be learning about interesting problems around critical high-performing, low-latency distributed systems while trying to improve the capital markets. In this role you’ll design, build and operate key infrastructure as it relates to the trading platform, while also having an opportunity to gain insights and learn how markets work from the inside. You’ll own deployment pipelines, monitoring, and capacity and performance of the systems as you become increasingly responsible for a highly regulated piece of core financial infrastructure.

You are

• Experienced in designing and operating distributed systems in production, ideally with exposure to event driven systems.
• Capable of and excited by designing capacity and performance engineering plans for high performance low-latency systems.
• Experienced in systems level software development.
• Experienced operating systems with strict regulatory or information security compliance requirements.
• Able to find eloquent technical solutions accounting for competing requirements from areas of concern such as the business, the rule book, regulatory requirements, and information security.
• Comfortable becoming the domain expert who’s sought out by others.
• Knowledgeable in learning from how complex systems fail and want to help own and iterate on our incident management and learning review processes.
• A great communicator who loves explaining complex concepts and understands the importance of good documentation.

We are looking for

• Experience in software or scripting languages (Python 3, golang, Bash are preferred).
• Been responsible for production systems including incident management.
• Expert knowledge of Linux and system administration.
• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining multi-cloud and physical networks.
• Experience with devops related technologies: CI/CD, IaC, CaC
• Experience automating away systems, process and toil.
• Production systems experience with regulated systems (financial, health, fintech, etc).
• Built and supported systems on top of GCP’s offerings.
• An understanding of the challenges in bringing observability (o11y) to complex distributed systems.

Nice to haves

• You are curious and practice operating with a beginners mindset.
• You enjoy reasoning through complex problems that arise from complex systems.
• You already embrace Lean Startup methodology, experimentation and feedback-oriented development.

Benefits include:

• Drive Innovation. Make an impact working with a mission-driven company that shares your desire to create a new kind of public market.
• Meet Great People. Work with skilled, committed, and supportive teammates, that have a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Achieve Balance. Enjoy the LTSE commitment to a sustainable remote-first work environment, including an unlimited vacation policy that requires team members to take a minimum of three weeks vacation per year.
• Prioritize Health. Take charge of your health with rich medical, dental, vision, and EAP benefits. 100% of employee costs are sponsored by LTSE and there is a small, fixed employee contributions for dependent costs.
• Focus on Family: All new parents receive up to 4 months of caregiver leave including 8 weeks of full salary continuation, all while keeping your full company-sponsored benefits for up to the full 4 months.
• Foster Growth. Receive up to $1500 annually towards continuing education and development.
• Invest in Savings. Enroll in our 401k program offered through Human Interest, and other benefit programs offered through Gusto.
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