Site Reliability Engineer Data and Observability Platform
Crypto market-making, proprietary-trading, and Web3 venture-investment firm.
About Pulsar
Pulsar is a Hong Kong-founded crypto-native trading firm established in 2014. It provides market-making and proprietary trading across spot, perpetual, and options markets, operates across 80+ exchanges and 650+ digital assets, and also invests in digital-asset infrastructure through Pulsar Ventures.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own end-to-end platform observability, build actionable dashboards and alerts, and operate production systems. You will ship changes through CI/CD and GitOps, manage Kubernetes streaming workloads and AWS infrastructure, and participate in on-call. You will also build near-real-time telemetry pipelines, implement data-quality checks, optimize OLAP tables, and write SQL for dashboards and analytics.
Requirements
- University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
- At least 4–7 years of relevant work experience
- Production observability and monitoring experience
- CI/CD delivery experience
- Production experience with a distributed stream-processing engine
- Experience designing OLAP or columnar database tables and tuning queries
- Kubernetes working knowledge
- Strong programming skills in Python, Scala, Java, or Rust
- Fluent analytical SQL
- Ability to troubleshoot production systems methodically
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end platform observability
- Build actionable Grafana dashboards and alerts
- Diagnose production failures, recover missed data, and prevent recurrence
- Ship changes through CI/CD and GitOps
- Operate streaming workloads on Kubernetes EKS
- Provision AWS resources using Terraform
- Participate in on-call for the data and observability platform
- Build and maintain near-real-time telemetry and log pipelines
- Design data-quality checks and route bad records for investigation
- Design and optimize OLAP tables
- Write and tune SQL for dashboards and analytics
