Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at BHFT, your main responsibilities will revolve around ensuring the stability and reliability of our trading platform. This includes managing production stability, developing incident monitoring systems, and enforcing standards for release and change management. You will also lead integration projects with exchanges and brokers, alongside optimizing system performance and resilience.

To excel as a Site Reliability Engineer at BHFT, candidates should possess a deep knowledge of trading processes and market microstructure, experience in high-load monitoring and incident management, and proficiency in industry-standard tools. Additionally, strong technical skills, especially in Linux systems administration, networking, and Python scripting for automation, are essential.

BHFT encourages a culture of continuous improvement for its Site Reliability Engineers by promoting collaboration, transparency, and experimentation with new technologies and processes. SREs play a key role in developing and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring the team can efficiently operate and innovate within high-pressure environments.

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at BHFT, you’ll utilize a wide array of tools to manage incident monitoring and alerting, including Grafana, Prometheus, Opsgenie, and more. Your experience with TCP/UDP protocols and various exchange API integrations will also be valuable in ensuring streamlined operations across multiple trading platforms.

BHFT fosters a dynamic work environment for its Site Reliability Engineers, emphasizing flexibility, collaboration, and remote work opportunities. You will join a diverse team of over 200 professionals dedicated to pushing the boundaries of algorithmic trading while actively participating in an innovative culture that embraces constant improvement.

When answering this question, highlight specific tools you've used, such as Grafana or PagerDuty, and provide examples of how you've developed monitoring systems or resolved incidents to maintain service continuity under pressure.

Discuss your familiarity with regulatory compliance protocols and how you've automated validation processes. Include specific actions you've taken to align operations with both internal and external requirements in previous roles.

Focus on examples where you improved system resilience or reduced latencies—mention any specific methodologies or metrics you've employed and how they contributed to the overall success of past projects.

Reflect on your experience with change management frameworks, describing how you've enforced testing protocols and minimized risks during deployments based on past situations, ensuring that you maintain strategy performance and operational integrity.

Detail the process you typically follow for integration projects, emphasizing collaboration with stakeholders and techniques you employ to ensure successful and secure connections with new systems while maintaining business continuity.

Share a specific example that showcases your problem-solving and leadership skills during a high-pressure situation. Outline the steps you took during the incident, the outcome, and any lessons learned that improved future incident response.

Talk about the automation tools you've used and the processes you've been able to automate. Share examples of how automation led to improved efficiency and reliability in your past operations and how it may apply to BHFT.

Describe your approach to ongoing learning—whether through online courses, attending conferences, subscribing to industry publications, or participating in professional networks. Mention any relevant communities or forums you engage with.

Identify specific metrics that are important for trade systems and SRE operations, such as MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery), MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), and system latency. Explain why these metrics matter in a trading context.

Articulate your values around collaboration, transparency, and innovation, and explain how these elements not only improve team dynamics but also enhance the functionality and reliability of the trading systems you support.