Senior Release & Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Release & Reliability Engineer to deliver and automate the release and deployment of our backend services: approval, deploy, verification and rollback.

More than sixty backend services and web applications are released and restarted across production regions in North America, Europe and Asia, behind our web portal, mobile apps and desktop trading platform.

The role also owns disaster recovery for that estate: standby regions that stay current, backups that restore and failover that has been rehearsed.

You will

The release and deployment team, two engineers today, working with every development team in the group as well as product managers, compliance and the infrastructure team.

Responsibilities

Deliver releases and deployments for backend services and web applications, from test through production, to whole regions or single hosts

Run the release request lifecycle with the requesting developer: approvals, rollback path, verification, change records

Execute rollbacks under time pressure, and verify the rolled-back state

Set up disaster recovery: standby regions, replication, backup and restore, failover and failback

Run DR drills and regional failover tests, and keep recovery procedures proven

Verify releases with telemetry rather than by eye: dashboards, log queries, error and latency checks, smoke tests

Onboard new services into the release system, including clustered multi-instance topologies

Automate manual release work: pipelines, deployment and configuration templates, validation, verification harnesses, restart jobs

Bring infrastructure, application and release pipelines under one versioned, testable template language, and retire per-project scripts

Help teams meet readiness standards before new traffic reaches production: monitoring coverage, load-test evidence, rate limiting, staggered restarts

Own build and release infrastructure and access: build jobs, artifact promotion and versioning, release permissions

Provide L2 and L3 support for the release path: off-hours windows, weekend coverage, emergency releases, incidents

Mentor engineers on release practice, and keep release and deployment procedures current

Requirements and skills

2+ years in release engineering, configuration management, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering, including production releases of server-side services

Rigor about change control: every release documented and reconstructable afterwards, never shipped without a tested rollback path

Disaster recovery: standby environments, replication, backup and restore, and failover you have actually run

Strong Python and shell, enough to own and extend release tooling and automate operations against tool APIs

Deep Linux experience, ideally Red Hat, including diagnosing a failing service on an unfamiliar host

CI/CD and artifact management: Jenkins, TeamCity or GitLab CI, Git, Maven, Gradle or npm, Nexus or Artifactory

Configuration as code: YAML models, environment, region and host overrides, everything in version control

Observability and log analysis: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, Grafana or equivalent, plus scripting and regular expressions for raw logs

Clear written communication, and comfort working across teams in several countries and time zones

BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant field

Good to have

5+ years of the above, in banking, brokerage or another regulated production environment

Multi-region disaster recovery at scale, including regional failover of stateful services

Reusable CI/CD and deployment pipeline templates across a large application estate

Automating build and release pipelines for customer facing apps (e.g. iOS, Android, Desktop): code signing, beta distribution and store submission

Cloud migration of on-premises release and deployment processes, infrastructure as code, Ansible, containers or orchestration

Internal developer platforms and self-service release tooling

Code quality gates such as SonarQube, job scheduling and change tracking such as ServiceNow or Jira

Exposure to market data, order routing or brokerage systems

Benefits

Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus, and stock grant awards

401(k) retirement plan with competitive company match

Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. 100% employer-paid medical premiums, with generous employer contributions to dental & vision plans as well.

Wellness screening and assessments, health coaches, and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Generous paid parental leave (up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for eligible employees)

Company-paid basic life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), and short- and long-term disability coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, and Commuter FSAs)

Quarterly fitness stipend to offset costs associated with traditional gym and fitness memberships or fees

Education reimbursement and professional development opportunities

Legal services, telehealth access, and voluntary insurance options

Backup child and adult care support through Care.com

Daily lunch allowance and fully stocked kitchen with healthy breakfast and snack options has context menu