Site Reliability Engineer

Databento

. Own uptime, SLAs, and SLOs across API and platform services .

Posted 10/1/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on Python application optimization, observability tooling, and high-availability deployment strategies. Proven ability to manage incident response and improve CI/CD workflows in a remote work environment.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Python Application DevelopmentObservability ToolingContainerization and High-Availability DeploymentIncident Response Management

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Hard Skills

PythonDebugging ToolsPerformance OptimizationDatabase Schema DesignQuery Optimization

Soft Skills

Good Communication SkillsStrong Work Ethic

Tools & Technologies

PrometheusOpenTelemetryDockerKubernetesAnsible

Industry Keywords

API ServicesOperational Best PracticesPetabyte-Scale Data ProcessingFinancial DataAlgorithmic Trading

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleDockerKubernetesLinuxLogstashPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own uptime, SLAs, and SLOs across API and platform services
Set reliability and operational best practices for developers
Build and maintain observability across logging, metrics, and tracing
Design and run high-availability deployment and containerization strategies
Profile and optimize Python applications for throughput, latency, and cost
Debug production issues down to the OS level using strace, perf, eBPF, ss, and gdb
Improve deployment and CI/CD workflows
Participate in the on-call rotation, lead incident response, and run post-incident reviews
Identify needed fixes and take projects from idea to completion
Work on petabyte-scale data processing, customer management and billing, and query systems powering APIs

Requirements

What you’ll need

Midlevel or senior individual contributor
Full-time experience in SRE, DevOps, or backend engineering, preferably at a trading firm, tech company, or high-growth startup
Hands-on experience with observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing, such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Logstash, Loki, or Vector
Experience with containerization and high-availability deployment, such as Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, or k3s
Strong proficiency in Python, including application development and performance optimization
Comfortable with Linux debugging and profiling tools such as strace, perf, eBPF, ss, and gdb
Track record of measurable impact in a recent role
Experience with alerting and incident response best practices is a plus
Familiarity with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible or Terraform is helpful
HTTP benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning experience is a bonus
Database schema design and query optimization skills are nice to have
Good communication skills and work ethic for a remote workplace
Interest in financial data or algorithmic trading

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal employment opportunities and nondiscrimination protections
Employment accommodation available upon request
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