SRE Tech Lead

Role: SRE Tech Lead

Location: Chicago

Type: Permanent

Industry: Leading Trading Firm

Total Compensation: $700k Plus (split between base and bonuses)

A leading high-frequency trading firm is seeking an SRE Tech Lead to design, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers its world-class trading environment. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of experience with Python and Go, strong Linux expertise, and a background from Big Tech or a similarly demanding engineering environment.

The SRE Tech Lead will lead by example, shaping the reliability strategy for core production systems while remaining hands-on across architecture, incident response, automation, and platform engineering. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems in a low-latency, performance-critical trading setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SRE efforts across critical infrastructure platforms, ensuring high availability, low latency, and operational resilience.
• Design and maintain streaming systems architecture, including message/streaming queues
• Own observability, alerting, and incident management practices, and continuously improve mean time to detect and recover from incidents.
• Design and implement automation for deployments, reliability controls, and operational workflows using Python and Go.
• Lead and mentor

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Python and Go
• Experience with Linux
• Knowledge of streaming systems architecture and design
• Experience with message/streaming queues
• Working knowledge of Rust, C/C++
• Experience with big data / columnar-style data stores and time series databases.
• Experience working with version control and CI/CD systems.
• Experience with app deployment management and lifecycle
• Background from Big Tech, hyperscale, or similarly demanding engineering environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting high transaction environment systems.
• Familiarity with service mesh, policy-as-code, or secure platform operations.
• Exposure to high-availability design, performance analysis, and production incident leadership.

Benefits

• Join a small, high-caliber team with real ownership and technical autonomy.
• Solve hard engineering problems at the intersection of scale, reliability, and speed.
• Competitive compensation and the opportunity to make a measurable impact in a top-tier trading environment.