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Site Reliability Engineer

Databento· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote)$150k - $215kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Midlevel or senior IC role focusing on uptime, performance, and observability of Databento's platform. Owns reliability across API and services, shapes best practices, and drives incident response and post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

  • Own uptime, SLAs, and SLOs across our API and platform services.
  • Set reliability and operational best practices for other developers without slowing them down.
  • 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 tools like strace, perf, eBPF, ss, and gdb.
  • Improve deployment and CI/CD workflows.
  • Join the on-call rotation, lead incident response, and run post-incident reviews.
  • Find what needs fixing on your own, then take projects from idea to completion.

Qualifications

  • 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 (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Logstash, Loki, Vector).
  • Experience with containerization and high availability deployment (e.g. Docker, Podman, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, 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 (e.g., performance improvements, efficiency gains, cost savings).
  • Experience with alerting and incident response best practices is a plus.
  • Familiarity with configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform) is helpful.
  • Bonus: HTTP benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning.
  • Database schema design and query optimization skills are nice to have.
  • Good communication skills and ability to work remotely.
  • Interest in financial data or algorithmic trading.

Skills

Required:Observability toolingPython performance optimizationLinux debuggingContainerization / HA deploymentIncident response / on-call

Benefits

  • Health, dental, disability, and life insurance benefits.
  • 401(k) matching for full-time employees.
  • 100% remote work with colleagues worldwide paid in their local currency.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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