Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer, working in Platform Operations team, you'll play a critical role in keeping Nasdaq's platforms running reliably and efficiently across global markets. You'll drive operational excellence through automation, continuous improvement, and close collaboration with engineering teams - helping us deliver resilient, scalable services to clients worldwide.

You'll thrive in this role if you're a self-starter who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, works well across teams, and brings a passion for technology and automation to a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

• Platform Operations: Manage, scale, and optimize production-grade Kubernetes (k8s) clusters across multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
• GitOps & Deployment: Design and maintain automated application delivery pipelines using ArgoCD to ensure declarative environment states.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, OpenTofu
• Observability: Implement and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/OpenSearch stacks.
• Reliability Engineering & Developer Experience: Participate in on-call rotations, conduct blameless post-mortems, and minimize operational toil through automation while collaborating with software engineering teams to streamline onboarding and reduce friction in the software development lifecycle.

• Kubernetes Expertise: 2+ years of hands-on experience managing Kubernetes workloads, ingress controllers, storage, and networking.
• GitOps Practice: Proven experience implementing GitOps workflows, specifically configuring and troubleshooting ArgoCD at scale.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Strong familiarity with continuous integration tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in programming languages like Go or Python, alongside strong Bash scripting skills.
• Linux Fundamentals: Deep understanding of Linux internals, container runtimes (Docker, containerd), and core networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP).

Nice to have

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) using tools like Backstage.
• Familiarity with service meshes such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Certification in Kubernetes Administration (CKA) or Security (CKS).

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering discounted company shares
• Pension plan with Nasdaq contribution
• 6 additional days off per year
• Work from (almost) anywhere — up to 20 days per year
• Paid time off to volunteer
• Health insurance
• Free gym, yoga & pilates classes and discounted in-office massages
• 24/7 mental health support for you and your family
• Global mentoring program
• Unlimited access to e-learning platforms
• Hybrid work setup
• Modern and comfortable work environment with fresh fruit, snacks, and weekly Fika breaks