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Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

US - Remote


NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth stage FinTech company servicing hundreds of thousands of traders by providing award-winning software and brokerage services. We are building products and services which empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world’s leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, comfortable and fun. Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.


The Site Reliability Engineer is a key member of our growing IT team. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will work across the organization, architecting, advising, and building solutions that scale and secure the NinjaTrader platform. This role will help drive a culture of observability, and will touch all facets of the engineering pipeline, from development and deployment to core infrastructure and configuration. 


Successful candidates will come from a technical background with hands-on experience in developing cloud systems at scale, and have a solid understanding of security controls. They will also know how to design distributed systems and have experience building reliable and scalable infrastructure. They will collaborate with others to drive initiatives forward and balance technical risks against business risks to drive for the right results. 


In this role, you will: 


  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve container and Kubernetes based infrastructure to empower applications running in NinjaTrader’s cloud hosted environment 
  • Lead the migration of the remaining on-premise infrastructure to NinjaTrader’s cloud hosted environment 
  • Leading the gathering of functional requirements, developing technical specifications, and project & test planning 
  • Produce high quality infrastructure-as-code, with results-oriented mindset 
  • Provide guidance to other engineers on how they can best run distributed applications in containerized environments
  • Define, implement, and automate the continuous deployment of highly available, production workloads with zero downtime, along with operational metrics for monitoring
  • Build well-tested high-quality tools to improve developer productivity and developer experience
  • Acting as the technical subject matter expert: Mentoring fellow engineers, demonstrating technical expertise, and leading a small team solving challenging programming and design problems 

 

 Key Job Requirements: 


  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field or equivalent practical experience 
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure operations in a large, complex, cloud-based environment 
  • Deep experience working with Kubernetes and with distributed systems 
  • Demonstrated understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, application observability, automation tools, and DevOps processes & philosophies 
  • Demonstrated success in building infrastructure in the public cloud and deploying through CI/CD pipelines, utilizing technologies such as: Istio, YAML, Python, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes 
  • Experience with defining risks and analyzing systems for threats and security vulnerabilities
  • Production experience scaling and managing distributed Linux systems
  • Experience troubleshooting complex problems, working effectively across multiple teams
  • A passion for excellent documentation, with strong oral and written communication skills 

 

Base Compensation: Up to $145,000 depending on experience

 

 

Our Benefits:  


  • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage  
  • 401k with Company Match  
  • Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader  
  • Generous PTO  
  • 7 paid holidays annually  

 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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NinjaTrader empowers traders to control their financial destiny by providing products and services meant to enhance their trading journey.

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September 12, 2023

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