Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About Seed

Seed is a startup financial exchange focused on cryptocurrency and emerging markets. Seed is seeking a smart, driven individual with experience operating in the trading industry.

Responsibilities

• SREs must be able to investigate and handle issues in a live production environment to ensure uptime on their own or by escalating to the team for assistance.
• Keep everyone informed about the health and viability of the platform by reporting known issues and status of ongoing investigations.
• Identify and advocate for changes vital to the stability and supportability of the system.
• Mentor and advise teammates to ensure new features are efficient, highly available, and fault tolerant.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in as a SRE or Operations Engineer
• Expert at Linux system administration and performance tuning.
• Expert at designing and implementing secure and efficient networks.
• Deep experience managing and incorporating IaaS networks (AWS) into hybrid networks.
• Very comfortable with Python, web applications, and their ecosystems.
• Comfortable with change management and monitoring software such as Ansible, Zookeeper, Consul, Zabbix, and Graylog,
• Familiarity with the ITIL process.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity mitigation and best practice a big plus.
• Willingness to dive in and assist teammates.
• Relevant experience from an exchange, proprietary trading firm or top tier bank a plus.
• Willingness to participate in the team’s on-call rotation.
• Positive, entrepreneurial attitude.