Head of SRE, Cross-Asset

IEX is 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 role 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

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

Pay

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. This role is eligible for bonus and equity.