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What you'll do:Join our Platform Engineering team, where you'll ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of the trading systems that power NinjaTrader. You'll deploy single- and multi-cluster services to Kubernetes, partnering with Product Engineering and Technical Operations to strengthen monitoring, reduce operational toil, and keep our revenue-generating systems running for traders around the world. Working alongside technical leadership, you'll help maintain 99.95% uptime and high performance across the trading platform.
In this role you will:- Serve as the technical lead for the SRE function, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers across reliability initiatives
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues with a systematic problem-solving approach to keep revenue-generating systems running
- Participate in a weekly 12x7 on-call rotation, including weekend deployments and checkouts before markets open on Sundays
- Perform initial root cause analysis and remediation of production incidents
- Build tools that automate repetitive tasks, deployments, and incident responses with the goal of minimal human involvement
- Design reliable monitoring and alerting systems with Product and QA teams, establishing and tracking SLIs/SLOs across web, mobile, desktop, and trading platforms
- Leverage Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform to automate provisioning, scaling, and management across all platforms
- Collaborate with Product Engineering, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to deliver features on time while meeting scalability, security, and performance requirements
- Implement security and compliance best practices (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS) throughout the software delivery lifecycle for web, mobile, and desktop deployments
What you'll need:- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
- Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash, or Go) and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Helm
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including in-depth knowledge of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar
- Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams and mentor junior engineers
Bonus points for:- Trading industry experience
- Contributions to open-source projects
Compensation:The salary range for this role will be $160,000.00 - $210,000.00 USD. In addition, this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 12%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%).
Salary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation package offered by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader offers a 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 23 days per year plus seven paid holidays.
Location:This role is based in Chicago, IL. We are not open to remote candidates for this role
Hybrid:For Chicago-based employees, we follow a hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays. In addition to these weekly remote days, we offer:
- 20 additional flex remote days annually
- 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays
Our Core Benefits Include:- Generous PTO
- 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
- 1 Service Day Annually
- 401k with 3.5% Company Match
- Paid Parental Bonding Leave
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
