Full-Time

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Posted on 10/31/2025

Supernova Technology

Supernova Technology

51-200 employees

Cloud-based platform for securities-based lending

Compensation Overview

$130k - $170k/yr

Chicago, IL, USA

In Person

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Bash
Python
AWS
Go
DevOps
Requirements
  • 5-8 years in SRE, operations, or performance engineering roles
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields
  • Advanced expertise with monitoring and alerting tools
  • Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Go, or Bash
  • Strong background in AWS cloud environments
  • Experience with container orchestration using AWS Elastic Container Service
  • Proven track record in leading high-severity incident response calmly and effectively
  • Familiarity with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), postmortem processes, and change management controls
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with development, platform, and security teams
  • Reliability-focused mindset with an emphasis on uptime and recovery speed
  • Analytical problem-solving skills supported by metrics and data
  • Calm and effective performance in high-pressure situations
  • Technical depth to diagnose and resolve complex system issues
  • Proactive leadership in anticipating and addressing reliability risks
Responsibilities
  • Ensure systems meet high-availability targets through well-defined Service-Level Agreements, Service-Level Objectives, and Service-Level Indicators
  • Own and optimize the monitoring, logging, and alerting stack to ensure actionable alerts
  • Lead incident response and postmortem processes, driving remediation and prevention
  • Plan capacity and optimize performance to address bottlenecks before they impact customers
  • Automate operational tasks to reduce manual intervention
  • Collaborate with DevOps to improve continuously integrated/continuous deployment reliability and with Platform Engineering to ensure infrastructure scalability
  • Implement reliability controls required for System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) and other regulatory standards

Supernova Technology provides cloud-based, digital wealth management lending software for securities-based lending. It serves banks, broker-dealers, and RIAs, enabling advisors to offer liquidity solutions by using clients’ investment portfolios as collateral. The platform is fully automated and digitized, supporting all-electronic origination and scalable to millions of clients, while also connecting institutions with funding partners and offering advisory education. Unlike fragmented workflows, Supernova combines an end-to-end fintech platform, risk and liquidity management, and coaching services in one solution, helping financial professionals streamline lending, reduce cycle times, and improve the client experience. Its goal is to empower advisors to grow their securities-based lending business and overall financial wellness for clients through scalable, cloud-based technology.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$26.5M

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Partnerships with SEI in 2022 and Old National Bancorp in 2023 expand advisor reach.
  • Scalable SaaS integrates real-time data, serving millions of clients efficiently.
  • Lean 78-employee team captures multi-billion dollar SBL market share rapidly.

What critics are saying

  • Upstart undercuts SaaS fees with direct AI-driven SBL lending within 6-12 months.
  • SEC mandates costlier compliance post-2025 Schwab margin failures, eroding margins.
  • Eton Solutions displaces Aperture in SEI network, starving SBL upsells in 12 months.

What makes Supernova Technology unique

  • Prism AI extracts PDF data with 95% accuracy using proprietary LLMs and OCR.
  • Aperture provides enterprise collateral management beyond SBL for risk professionals.
  • Fully automated, cloud-based SBL platform handles origination to loan life seamlessly.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Unlimited Paid Time Off

401(k) Retirement Plan

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Commuter Benefits

Pet Insurance

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

-2%
PR Newswire
Jan 23rd, 2024
Supernova Technology Announces Launch Of Its Ai-Powered Document Assistant And Data Extraction Solution

With Prism, Supernova's AI-powered document assistant and data extraction solution, critical data is extracted from PDFs in minutes with over 95% accuracyCHICAGO, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Supernova Technology, a wealth lending technology company, announced the launch of its generative AI-powered document assistant and data extraction solution, Prism.With Prism, users can upload supported financial documents from across the industry and parse critical data at the click of a button, empowering businesses to make faster decisions and reduce errors."Now more than ever, decision makers want immediate access to data, in formats they can use," said Supernova CEO Tao Huang. "Too much critical data is hidden in unmanageable PDFs. We're excited to launch Prism and offer a simple, high-fidelity solution that eliminates error-prone, manual data entry."Unlike standard document-reading solutions that rely on optical character recognition (OCR) alone, Prism leverages Supernova's proprietary large language models in combination with OCR to easily identify, organize, and extract relevant data. Prism's models are proactively trained to recognize the information that matters and privately hosted to ensure data integrity and client data confidentiality.To learn more about Prism, visit www.supernovacompanies.com/solutions/prism.About Supernova TechnologySupernova Technology, a financial technology company based in Chicago, has built an industry-leading, fully configurable, end-to-end software solution to automate securities-based lending from origination through the life of the loan. The company empowers banks, wealth management firms, and financial advisors with education and software to deliver a low-interest rate liquidity solution to a broad segment of their clients

Nasdaq
Oct 4th, 2023
Financial Sector Update for 10/04/2023: ONB, UBS, C, UPST

In corporate news, Old National Bancorp ( ONB ) has partnered with Supernova Technology to provide lending products to clients.

PR Newswire
Jun 28th, 2022
Supernova Technology™ Expands Product Offering And Launches Enterprise Collateral Management Product, Aperture™ To Empower Credit And Risk Professionals

Monitor, analyze, report, and mitigate risk across your lending business all in one place with Aperture Enterprise Collateral Management Solution. CHICAGO , June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Supernova Technology, a technology leader in securities-based lending (SBL) is expanding their product offering outside of SBL with the addition of Aperture – an Enterprise Collateral Management Solution. Aperture was built to give credit and risk professionals a new level of control and efficiency giving them oversight of their loan book in one place

SEI Investments Company
Feb 3rd, 2022
SEI partnered with Supernovacompanies on Feb 3rd 22'.

SEI® (NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced a strategic partnership with Supernova Technology™ (Supernova), adding Nationwide Smart Credit SM to the nearly 50 technology integrations and strategic partnerships available to independent advisors through the SEI Wealth Platform SM.

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