Site Reliability Engineer

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Locations

San Francisco, CA, USA • Oakland, CA, USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

AWS

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

C/C++/C#

Java

Linux/Unix

Microsoft Azure

MySQL

Kubernetes

Python

TCP/IP

Requirements

BS with 3 years+ or MS with 1 year working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Experience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go
Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
Experience in infrastructure like AWS, GCP, Azure, mysql, kubernetes, Docker etc
Deep knowledge of Linux internals
Networking protocols such as TCP/IP
Extensive experience in supporting production Internet services
Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive

Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement. Embed with Engineering teams to apply industry best practices
Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation
Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents

Who are we?

FalconX is one of the fastest-growing startups in FinTech. We are redefining prime brokerage from the ground up.

We are backed by some of the best investors in the world including Accel, American Express, B Capital, Coinbase, Fidelity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Fenbushi Capital and Tiger Global Management + more yet to be publicly disclosed.

We deliver institutional digital asset traders best-in-class trading, credit, custody and structured products. We trade, lend and secure tens of billions of dollars monthly, are highly profitable, and growing fast, so we need your help!

We are data-driven. Whether it’s a growth or product decision, we believe data can always help us make more precise and informed choices.

We move fast. Speed of execution is essential for any startup, but we believe this is even more pertinent in our 24/7 industry.

We prioritize learning. Outcomes are mission-critical, but we also believe that learning in success and in failure will drive our continued success. Our industry is emergent - there’s no shortage of experiments to get involved with and to continue growing and learning together.

FalconX has offices in San Mateo, Chicago, New York, and Bangalore.

Who is on the team?

We are entrepreneurs. Many in our company have been founders or have aspirations to eventually start their own company. We take these ambitions and experiences to bring a solutions-oriented mindset to the problems we encounter day-to-day.

We are experienced. We have been fortunate to have learned from mentors and peers at institutions such as Google, LinkedIn, JUMP Trading, Citadel, PEAK6 Investments, Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon, IIT + more.

Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement. Embed with Engineering teams to apply industry best practices.
Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation
Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents

Minimum Qualification

BS with 3 years+ or MS with 1 year working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Experience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
Experience in infrastructure like AWS, GCP, Azure, mysql, kubernetes, Docker etc.
Deep knowledge of Linux internals
Networking protocols such as TCP/IP

Preferred Qualification

Extensive experience in supporting production Internet services
Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive

51-200 employees

Website

Digital asset trading & brokerage platform

Company Overview

FalconX's mission is to build this connective tissue for open, permission-less, and truly global digital assets to be adopted by mainstream institutions at scale, today's digital infrastructure is grossly inadequate. FalconX is a digital asset trading platform that provides clients fast, secure and reliable execution using data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees.