Lead Engineer - PSRE

Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow's challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

The SRE team is responsible for monitoring the stability and availability of mission critical production systems, managing incidents for quicker resolution, and establishing BAU. Team also building tools/infra which all development teams will use to help monitor and troubleshoot.

What you'll do:

• Lead reliability engineering projects and drive it to closure.
• Write code and perform code reviews for best practices and code quality.
• Contribute to the design/architecture of the system.
• Automate processes and find opportunities to improve observability and availability of the Platform and reduce toil.
• Supervise a team of SREs, ensuring production applications are stable, reliable, and well documented.
• Own end to end availability and performance of mission critical services.
• Analyze and debug complex issues across tiers from frontend to mid-tier to infrastructure.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

What you'll need:

• 5 to 8 years of experience handling systems for large scale production environments.
• A self-starter, able to build, drive and advocate for SRE solution.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration skills to develop tools for secured, scalable, and reliable systems.
• Solid understanding of SRE concepts like SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, MTTR, MTTD, etc.
• Experience with variety of tools that help manage, understand, and debug large, complex distributed systems.
• Good programming experience (Python/Go).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Working knowledge in any one of the cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Datadog, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Good knowledge of Unix system, networking, web technologies, and databases.
• Expert with troubleshooting issues and bugs.
• Incident Management experience coupled with effective communication skills.
• Experience in financial domain (desirable).
• Prior SRE/DevOps experience desirable.

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.