Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Trading Systems
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About Ondo Finance
Ondo Finance is a blockchain-enabled investment platform providing institutional-grade products and services. Founded by former Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Team members, Ondo is backed by top investors like Founders Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, and Tiger Global. The company leads in tokenized treasuries, stocks, and ETFs, with a fully remote team across the U.S.
About the Role
Ondo operates real-time trading systems running 24/7 across traditional and crypto venues. The platform includes low-latency Rust engines, Go services for trading, execution, and PnL accounting, and a multi-region Kubernetes footprint on AWS.
We are seeking an SRE with strong systems programming skills to ensure the reliability, observability, and performance of this platform. This hands-on role involves:
- Reading and modifying Go and Rust code
- Debugging latency regressions down to the feed handler
- Incident response during market hours
- Building automation for a 24/7 trading system
Target Outcomes
- Own production reliability for real-time trading services, including trading engines, execution gateways, market data ingestion, and PnL/reconciliation pipelines
- Operate and evolve multi-region Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS), deployed via GitOps (Flux) with SOPS-encrypted secrets
- Build and refine observability: Prometheus metrics and alerting, Datadog logs and dashboards, and SLOs to catch degradation before it impacts finances
- Improve deploy safety: progressive rollouts, config-reload behavior, and guardrails to prevent bad pushes from touching live trading
Responsibilities
- Debug production incidents end-to-end, including stale market data feeds, exchange rate limits, WebSocket disconnects, order-lifecycle desyncs, and latency regressions in the trading path
- Harden market data ingestion from providers like Databento and venue-native feeds (REST and WebSocket), including staleness detection, failover, and replay
- Build reconciliation and data-integrity tooling across live gauges, Postgres, and our S3 parquet data lake to ensure positions, fills, and PnL always align
- Participate in an on-call rotation covering US equity market hours and 24/7 crypto venues
Requirements
- 5+ years in SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure roles, with experience supporting real-time or latency-sensitive systems
- Strong programming ability in Go or Rust, with willingness to work in both; this role involves modifying application code, not just infrastructure
- Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS, including running stateful, latency-sensitive workloads in production
- Strong observability skills: fluent in PromQL, structured-log analysis, and designing alerts with high signal and low noise
- Solid knowledge of Linux internals and networking fundamentals, including chasing p99 regressions through the kernel, NIC, or GC
- Sound judgment under pressure and clear written communication during and after incidents
Nice to Haves
- Experience operating trading systems, execution infrastructure, or market data infrastructure at a trading firm, exchange, or broker
- Familiarity with market microstructure and order lifecycle (order books, order types, fills, and reconciliation)
- Experience with market data providers and protocols (Databento, SIP/prop equity feeds, venue WebSocket APIs)
- Exposure to crypto venues and on-chain trading
- Python for operational tooling and data analysis (pandas, parquet, BigQuery)
- Experience with GitOps workflows, infrastructure as code, and secrets management at scale
Tech Stack
Go, Rust, Python | Kubernetes (EKS), Flux, SOPS | AWS (multi-region), S3 parquet lake | Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog | Postgres, CockroachDB, BigQuery | Databento, venue WebSocket/REST feeds
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity
- Full benefits (medical, vision, dental) and flexible vacation policy
- Remote-first team across many countries
- Collaborative team with alumni from Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Two Sigma, and more
- Backed by leading crypto experts and VCs, including Pantera Capital, Founders Fund, and Coinbase Ventures
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Ondo Finance
View Company ProfileOndo Finance (operating under ondo.finance, legally Ondo Finance, Inc.) is the premier, enterprise-grade institutional real-world asset (RWA) tokenization pioneer, decentralized investment banking platform, and cross-chain liquidity orchestration powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-velocity bridge transforming traditional financial instruments into highly composable, on-chain digital assets for global investors. Founded in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs digital asset technologists Nathan Allman and Pinku Surana, the enterprise completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional finance and legacy capital markets—characterized by fragmented international settlement systems, geographic market silos, and restricted 9-to-5 banking operating rails—by deploying institutional-grade compliance wrappers around public blockchain smart contracts. Moving far beyond speculative or purely synthetic DeFi primitives, Ondo Finance natively unifies multi-chain tokenized US Treasuries (such as OUSG), yield-bearing alternative stablecoin notes (USDY), and 24/7 cross-border tokenized public equities or ETFs via its advanced Ondo Global Markets framework into a single high-availability capital ecosystem. Commanding a dominant share of the global on-chain treasury market with over $3 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) across its product suite, the platform is backed by deep strategic alliances with institutional infrastructure heavyweights, utilizing BlackRock's tokenized BUIDL fund for instantaneous liquidity backstops, alongside multi-bank ledger tests coordinated with J.P. Morgan's Kinexys, Mastercard, and Ripple. The high-growth institutional platform has secured more than $24 million in tier-one venture funding led by Founders Fund, Tiger Global Management, and Pantera Capital, alongside foundational acquisitions like Oasis Pro and Strangelove to integrate SEC-aligned broker-dealer, Alternative Trading System (ATS), and native Cosmos interoperability architectures. Under the hood, its technology framework utilizes advanced cross-chain asset bridges, KYC/AML embedded multi-signature smart contracts, daily cryptographic proof-of-reserves reporting, and strict compliance structures aligned with the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940 to guarantee absolute transactional correctness and deterministic processing state. Following a planned executive transition under President and CEO Ian De Bode, the firm continues its rapid global footprint expansion via dual hubs in New York and Hong Kong. What sets Ondo Finance apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing volatile, low-yield native crypto speculation with regulatory-compliant, low-risk sovereign and corporate yield instruments; by bridging the gap between multi-trillion-dollar relational Wall Street book-entry systems and decentralized programmable liquidity pools, the corporation remains the definitive institutional cornerstone of modern on-chain asset management and worldwide real-world asset transformation.
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