Trading Site Reliability Engineer - Sports | Experienced Hire

Susquehanna International Group, LLP • Bala Cynwyd (Philadelphia Area), PA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Trading Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support our sports trading desk. In this role, you will work at the intersection of software engineering, production operations, and trading systems, ensuring our systems run reliably, efficiently, and safely in live markets. You will collaborate closely with developers, quantitative researchers, and infrastructure teams to build and maintain the tooling, automation, and observability required for a modern low latency trading environment. This is a hands on engineering role where you will contribute to production code, improve system resiliency, and help drive best practices for operability in a real time trading context. Experience in trading systems, particularly sports trading, is highly desirable. In this role you will: Design, build, and maintain tooling and automation to monitor the health, performance, and correctness of a real time trading environment. Write production grade software and scripts (Python, Bash, shell) to support system reliability, deployment workflows, and operational visibility. Work directly with traders, quants, and developers to understand trading system behavior, production risks, and operational requirements. Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams on environment provisioning, CI/CD workflows, containerization, deployment pipelines, and system upgrades. Own production readiness for new system changes, ensuring safe rollout and high availability. Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems, networks, market data feeds, and exchange connectivity. Contribute to continuous improvement of incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a similar hands on technical role within a trading, market making, or financial markets environment
• Strong software engineering and scripting abilities, especially in Python and shell scripting.
• Experience working with real time, highly available trading systems (exchange connectivity, market data, order flow, or similar).
• Ability to troubleshoot across the stack: Linux systems, networks, distributed services, and application level logic.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working closely with traders, quants, and developers.
• Ability to succeed in a fast paced, high pressure production trading environment.
• In office work required 5 days per week.
• Serve as a member of an on call schedule to handle production issues, drive incident resolution, and contribute to post incident improvements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with sports trading, sportsbooks, or event driven trading models.
• Exposure to cloud native tooling (Kubernetes, containers, observability stacks such as Prometheus/Grafana/ELK).
• Familiarity with prediction markets, financial instruments, market microstructure, or exchange protocols.
• Strong quantitative reasoning skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain tooling and automation to monitor the health, performance, and correctness of a real time trading environment.
• Write production grade software and scripts (Python, Bash, shell) to support system reliability, deployment workflows, and operational visibility.
• Work directly with traders, quants, and developers to understand trading system behavior, production risks, and operational requirements.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams on environment provisioning, CI/CD workflows, containerization, deployment pipelines, and system upgrades.
• Own production readiness for new system changes, ensuring safe rollout and high availability.
• Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems, networks, market data feeds, and exchange connectivity.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees