The Company

Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a financial technology firm that is modernizing the equity capital markets (ECM).

CMG connects investors and underwriters via a neutral platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 100 buy-side firms representing $20 trillion in AUM and 15 investment banks.

In June 2020, CMG announced its Series B investment of $25 million from top financial firms such as Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley (see here). CMG’s goal is to alleviate pain points resulting from disparate solutions, fragmented data, and frenzied communication. CMG’s DataLab product solves data analytics, while CMG’s XC platform establishes connectivity between buy- and sell-side firms.

CMG’s team is predominantly located in the USA, and since 2019 CMG has also been expanding its team in Brno, Czechia.

The office in Brno is operated by OAK'S LAB.

We require occasional presence at our Brno office—typically a few times per month—for team collaboration and onsite activities

The Role

CMG is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong focus on monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure and applications. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining monitoring solutions to provide visibility into system health and performance, proactively detect anomalies, and reduce incident response time. 

Our Engineering Team

The CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices.

Our engineers are encouraged to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code-base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions using bleeding edge technologies such as AI and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions.

As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions. Given the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments we are constantly reviewing these foundational components to develop new best practices.

Responsibilities

Monitoring & Observability

Design, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana Stack (Loki/Grafana/Tempo/Alert Manager), Datadog, and OpenTelemetry. 
Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to measure system reliability. 
Develop and optimize dashboards, alerts, and reports for system performance and business metrics.

Alerting & Incident Management

Design actionable alerting strategies to minimize noise and improve MTTR.
Integrate alerting systems with Jira.
Establish and refine runbooks for on-call teams to handle alerts efficiently.
Empower teams to ensure observability coverage and incident response
practices.

Performance Optimization

Analyze system performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to improve system efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
Help conduct load testing and capacity planning to ensure systems can handle peak traffic loads.

Automation and Tooling

Identify opportunities for automation and develop tools to streamline operational processes, such as fail-over, configuration management, and monitoring.
Implement monitoring and alerting systems within automations to detect and resolve issues proactively.

Collaboration and Communication

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, operations, and infrastructure teams, to understand system requirements, provide technical guidance, and drive solutions.
Communicate effectively to stakeholders about system changes, incidents, and improvements. 
Foment and spread SRE principles and practices across company

Qualifications

Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role. 
Proficiency in logging, metrics, and tracing frameworks (DataDog, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry). 
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform). 
Strong programming and scripting skills (Python, Bash). 
Proficiency in containerization technologies and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
Understanding of Linux-based systems, networking, and security principles related to containerized applications. 
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a passion for identifying and resolving complex technical issues. 
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities. 
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment. 
Experience with PostgreSQL monitoring and optimization (Optional/Nice to have)

If you're passionate about building resilient financial systems, optimizing observability at scale, and solving real-world reliability challenges in capital markets, we’d love to have you on our team! 

Our Tech Stack

Azure as an infrastructure provider. We are reviewing secondary cloud options.
Docker + Kubernetes for microservice orchestration using Istio service mesh
PostgreSQL for relational db, ElasticSearch for indexing, Redis for caching
DataDog, Grafana and OpenTelemetry for observability
GitHub for our Version Control and CI (with our own runners)
CD: Harness and FluxCD
Terraform and Terragrunt as IaaC
Python and bash for scripting infrastructure
React - We’re all in on React – we maintain multiple single-page React apps
TypeScript – 99% of our codebase is TypeScript
Latest .NET version for our backend services
GraphQL - Our standard for API communication is GraphQL served by our DotNet Back-End

Our Values

We innovate with purpose 
We focus on outcomes vs. output 
We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation 
We are humble yet candid 
We do right by the customer

What We Offer

Unlimited vacation 
Meal vouchers paid in full by the company 
Multisport card contribution 
Pension contributions 
Language courses 
Centrally located office in the heart of Brno 
Bi-weekly team lunches provided by the company 
Tech courses and conferences 
Top of the line MacBook 
Company team building events 
Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home

At CMG, we accept nothing less than equity, inclusion and belonging for all. We are deeply committed to listening, learning and constantly improving for the betterment of our teams, clients and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Other tests

Junior

Take advantage of the knowledge in the offers

Sign up for the newsletter and move forward!

Sign up for the newsletter and move forward!