IEX Group

Head of SRE, Cross-Asset

IEX Group$250K — $300K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in leading SRE, Production Engineering, or Infrastructure teams.
  • Proven history of implementing technical and organizational changes.
  • Extensive knowledge of Linux, automation, observability, and production operations.
  • Familiarity with performance-sensitive systems, preferably in trading or exchanges.
  • Intellectually curious with a mindset to challenge current processes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the SRE organization focused on Equities and Options.
  • Drive strategies related to reliability, automation, and incident management.
  • Collaborate with various teams to ensure high reliability in trading systems.
  • Create and maintain tooling for production system support.
  • Mentor engineers and establish best practices across teams.
  • Remain actively involved in troubleshooting complex production issues.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for bonus and equity participation.
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic trading environment.
Full Job Description
About the Role

IEX is looking for a Head of SRE, Cross-Assetto lead our SRE organization as we scale our Equities business and launch Options.

We're looking for a deeply technical, intellectually curious leader and change agent who can challenge the status quo, develop strong teams and technical leaders, and evolve how we approach reliability across our trading platforms.

This person will be responsible for the reliability and operational excellence of our production environments while helping define a scalable SRE model across asset classes. Direct exchange experience is a plus, but we are open to leaders who have owned sophisticated large-scale, complex, production engineering environments.

Our environment includes Linux, Java, C++, Python, Rust, Bash, Ansible, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and Azure, with predominantly on-prem production

What You'll Do
  • Lead and develop the SRE organization across Equities and Options.
  • Define and drive our strategy for reliability, observability, automation, incident management, capacity, and performance.
  • Partner with Core Development, Network Engineering, Market Operations, and Platform Engineering, as well as business and regulatory stakeholders to operate highly reliable, performance-sensitive trading systems.
  • Develop tooling, including CLI tools used to support our production systems.
  • Develop engineers and technical leads while creating common standards and best practices across teams.
  • Remain technically engaged and help teams troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, hardware, and networks.

What We're Looking For
  • Proven experience building, leading, and scaling global SRE, Production Engineering, or Infrastructure teams responsible for highly available, business-critical production systems.
  • A track record of driving technical and organizational change.
  • Strong understanding of Linux, networking, automation, observability, and production operations.
  • Experience with performance-sensitive or highly available systems; trading or exchange experience is a plus.
  • An intellectually curious mindset and willingness to challenge how things are done.


Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting annual base pay is between $250,000 and $300,000 for this NY-based position. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The annual base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for bonus and equity.

About IEX Group

IEX Group is a financial technology company that operates a stock exchange. The company was founded in 2012 with the goal of creating a fairer and more transparent stock market. IEX is known for its unique approach to trading, which includes a 350-microsecond delay on all orders to prevent high-frequency traders from gaining an unfair advantage. The company has been featured in Michael Lewis' book 'Flash Boys' and has gained a reputation as a champion for small investors.
Learn more about IEX Group
Size
124 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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