Head of SRE, Cross-Asset

About IEX

IEX is an exchange operator and technology company dedicated to innovating for performance in capital markets. Founded in 2012, IEX launched a new kind of securities exchange in 2016 that combines a transparent business model and unique architecture designed to protect investors. Today, IEX applies its proprietary technology and experience to drive performance across asset classes, serve investors, and advocate for transparent and competitive markets.  

About the Role 

IEX is looking for a Head of SRE, Cross-Asset to lead our SRE organization as we scale our Equities business and launch Options. 

We’re 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 person 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. 

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

What You’ll Do 

• 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. 

What We’re Looking For 

• 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 job titles may span more than one career level. 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. The annual base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for bonus and equity.

Here at IEX, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and culture. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. This policy not only complies with all applicable laws and protects workers' rights but is vital to IEX’s overall mission and values.

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