About this role
About the Role Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Jump Trading Group's CORE (Central Ops and Reliability Engineering) Production Infrastructure, responsible for operating and improving the production trading environment. You will manage and mentor engineers while hands-on designing, building, and deploying high-performance monitoring, real-time packet/flow analysis tooling, and automation to support a global, ultra-low latency platform.
What You'll Do
- As Lead Site Reliability Engineer in CORE, you will both manage and mentor engineers across teams and contribute directly to key projects, balancing leadership responsibilities with hands-on work.
- Design & Build: Architect and implement high-performance monitoring and alerting systems, real-time packet/flow analysis tooling, and automation frameworks for managing Jump’s global production footprint.
- Lead Operational Maturity: Oversee and improve incident management, change management, and post-incident review processes to increase resilience and reduce downtime.
- Drive Efficiency: Identify and eliminate sources of operational toil through automation and tooling.
- Collaborate Globally: Partner with engineering, networking, and trading teams in multiple regions to align technical priorities with business objectives.
- Debug Deeply: Investigate low-level performance issues across complex software stacks, optimizing for ultra-low latency and high throughput.
- Shape the Roadmap: Influence the strategic direction of production tooling, infrastructure scaling, and vendor partnerships.
What We're Looking For
- Proven leadership experience having managed people across distributed teams.
- Demonstrated history of solving reliability challenges in large-scale production environments.
- Previous experience demonstrating strategic thinking skills and maturity in tackling complex problems, dealing with people, technology and processes.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or equivalent.
Compensation & Benefits
- Annual Base Salary Range $175,000—$200,000 USD
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
- Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation plus paid holidays
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness Programs