Site Reliability Engineer

Sporttrade • Camden, NJ

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

Sporttrade operates a regulated sports betting exchange that runs the way a financial exchange does. A successful Site Reliability Engineer at Sporttrade will be an operations-minded self-starter who treats the exchange like the production trading system it is: sessions open and close on schedule, every trade is captured and reported, and incidents are resolved quickly and documented thoroughly. In this role, you will own the day-to-day health of the exchange, spanning cloud infrastructure and on-premises datacenters, and you will automate away the toil that comes with operating a market that never wants to miss an open. This role works closely with the DevOps, Technical Operations, and Engineering teams to keep a live, regulated marketplace fast, observable, and compliant.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, production engineering, or technical operations role supporting a 24/7 production system
• Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting ability
• Experience supporting and debugging Java applications in production - reading stack traces and thread dumps, working with JVM memory and garbage-collection behavior, and diagnosing service issues from logs and metrics
• Solid working knowledge of TCP/IP networking — comfortable reasoning about connections, ports, routing, and firewalls to debug connectivity between exchange components, partners, and datacenters
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production and managing infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar)
• Experience with modern observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent) and a track record of being on-call for systems that matter
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred); experience with Kafka or other streaming platforms a plus
• Self-starter who can deliver results with minimal guidance
• Comfortable working independently and with a team
• Excellent communication and organizational skills — especially written incident communication and documentation

Nice To Haves

• Background and interest in trading, capital markets, exchange operations, or sports betting a plus; familiarity with exchange protocols a plus
• Previous experience in a regulated industry (gaming, finance) a plus
• Startup experience preferred but not required

Responsibilities

• Own the daily operation of the exchange trading lifecycle - market startup and shutdown, enabling and disabling trading, pre- and post-session sanity checks, and capture of settlement, clearing, and trade-reporting artifacts.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for a live regulated marketplace; lead incident response, drive incidents to resolution, author postmortems, and turn one-off fixes into runbooks and automation
• Operate and improve our observability stack (Datadog, Wazuh, Prometheus, Grafana) - dashboards, alert quality, SLOs, and reducing time-to-detection for market-impacting issues
• Run and maintain hybrid infrastructure: Kubernetes clusters (GKE and EKS) with an Istio service mesh, AWS and GCP accounts, and exchange servers in geographically distributed on-premises datacenters
• Automate infrastructure and operational procedures with Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins pipelines, with secrets managed in HashiCorp Vault
• Support the data platform behind the exchange: PostgreSQL (Cloud SQL), Kafka (Confluent Cloud) change-data-capture and streaming pipelines, Redis, and backup/restore and disaster-recovery procedures — including proving that backups actually restore
• Support market maker and partner connectivity (site-to-site VPNs and datacenter cross-connects), as well as conformance testing and onboarding support for partners joining the exchange.
• Contribute to ongoing process improvement and the establishment of new policy and procedure for monitoring, incident management, change control, and exchange operations

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits: Company pays 100% Employee premium and 50% Spouse & Dependent premiums
• Short- & Long-Term Disability; Group Term Life and AD&D; Voluntary Life and AD&D
• 401(k) Plan
• Equity Options
• Flexible time off
• MacBooks issued to all employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed