Lead Site Reliability Engineer - eFinancialCareers

About the role

We are an energy trading company generating liquidity across global commodities markets. We combine deep trading expertise with proprietary technology and the power of data science to be the best-in-class. Our understanding of volatile, data-intensive markets is a key part of our edge. At Dare, you will be joining a team of ambitious individuals who challenge themselves and each other. We have a culture of empowering exceptional people to become the best version of themselves. As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical, low-latency trading platforms. You'll work closely with traders, quantitative analysts, and engineers in a fast-paced environment where precision and speed are essential. This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership responsibility. You will own the reliability strategy while remaining hands-on with in production systems and complex distributed architectures. You will define and drive reliability practices for latency-sensitive trading infrastructure, establish and enforce service level objectives, and lead incident response across live trading environments. You'll focus on optimising system performance and latency, while collaborating with stakeholders to balance reliability, execution speed, and operational risk. Shaping technical direction, you will actively contribute to debugging, automation, and system design, while mentoring engineers to build a high-performing and resilient engineering culture.