--- title: 'Senior Site Reliability Engineer - PSRE at Arcesium LLC' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-site-reliability-engineer-psre-arcesium-llc-lisbon-s32s2na9dzmr' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Senior Site Reliability Engineer - PSRE at Arcesium LLC - **Company:** Arcesium LLC - **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal - **Posted:** 2025-03-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcesiumllc/jobs/4670550007 ## Job description Company Overview Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes. Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development. ## About the Role and the Team We are looking for an intelligent, resourceful, and highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Platform Site Reliability Engineering (PSRE) team. This team plays a critical role in ensuring the stability, reliability, and availability of mission-critical production applications on the Arcesium platform. The PSRE team is responsible for: - Observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing to proactively detect and prevent issues. - Building tools and infrastructure that enhance system stability and resilience. - Troubleshooting live production issues with a deep focus on rapid incident resolution. - Governing, declaring, managing, and recovering from platform-wide incidents to minimize downtime and business impact. As an SRE in this high-impact team, you will work under tight timelines in a high-pressure environment, where every second counts in resolving critical production incidents. This means you must be quick-thinking, highly analytical, and proactive in preventing and resolving disruptions. What You Will Do: - Incident Management: Serve as a primary contact and leader for incidents and critical issues impacting our platform during NY business hours.  Take ownership of incidents, drive effective communication, and facilitate swift resolution by collaborating with relevant engineering teams. - Proactive Monitoring & Analysis: Continuously monitor the health and performance of our applications and infrastructure. Analyze trends, identify potential risks, and proactively implement measures to prevent incidents and improve overall system reliability. - Troubleshooting & Problem Solving:  Troubleshoot complex technical issues across various layers of the stack (application, infrastructure, network). Utilize your analytical skills and technical expertise to identify root causes and implement effective solutions. - Collaboration & Communication:  Work closely with engineering, development, and operations teams to ensure seamless collaboration during incident response and in proactive reliability initiatives. Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, providing clear and concise updates on incidents and system status. - Automation & Optimization: Identify opportunities to automate tasks, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the resilience of our systems.  Develop tools and scripts as needed to streamline processes and reduce manual intervention. - Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of our SRE practices, tools, and processes.  Share your knowledge and expertise with the team to foster a culture of learning and growth. What we’re looking for: - Up to 5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Production Engineering role, with a deep understanding of SRE principles and best practices. - Incident management expertise, including triaging, escalation, and resolution of high-severity outages. - Proficiency in at least one coding language (Python or Java) for automation and debugging. - Hands-on experience in Kubernetes (K8s) for managing and orchestrating containerized applications. - Cloud experience (AWS preferred) with exposure to key services like EC2, S3, Lambda, and CloudWatch. - Excellent communication skills to articulate technical challenges and solutions effectively. - Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with experience diagnosing complex production issues. - Ability to stay calm under pressure, multitask, and prioritize effectively in fast-moving environments. - Fluency in English (spoken and written) is required. - Must have the legal right to work in the country. Nice-to-Have Skills: - Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code. - Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) - Familiarity with web application architectures and best practices. - Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows. Why Join Arcesium: At Arcesium, we offer: - Flexible work arrangements (hybrid model) and a casual dress code - Opportunity to work on challenging projects in a dynamic, global environment - Continuous learning and development opportunities - Collaborative and innovative work culture - Competitive compensation and benefits package - Modern and comfortable office located at Avenida da Liberdade (Lisbon) Join our team and play a crucial role in shaping Arcesium's future! Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked here. Recruiting Security Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at careers@arcesium.com (US/UK), careers-india@arcesium.com (India) or careers-europe@arcesium.com (Portugal/Sweden). Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer. ## About Arcesium LLC ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Arcesium is a global financial technology company that delivers a front-to-back, cloud-native data, operations, and analytics platform for the world’s most sophisticated investment institutions. - **Entity Type**: Private (Corporate Round) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Arcesium was built from a platform developed and tested by the D. E. Shaw group and launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing. ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Financial Technology (FinTech) / Software Development - **Target Customers**: Hedge funds, asset managers, private markets firms, prime brokers, and asset servicers (B2B, Enterprise). - **Mission Statement**: To power the entire investment lifecycle and arm clients with tools to uncover the insights that matter. ## Products & Services Arcesium offers a suite of cloud-native products designed to systematize complex workflows and create a synchronized golden source of data: - **Opterra Investment Lifecycle Management Platform**: A unified platform that empowers investment firms to drive operational alpha by modernizing the operating model across the entire investment lifecycle [arcesium.com](https://www.arcesium.com/). - **Aquata® Marketplace**: A data connectivity platform designed to power workflows and accelerate AI readiness for institutional investors by providing seamless access to external data [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcesium). - **Regulatory Reporting Solution**: A purpose-built tool to help clients navigate complex and evolving regulatory requirements [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcesium). - **Forward Deployed Solutions**: Custom, consultative technology deployments (e.g., Margin Calculator Group, Data Strategy) that solve specific operational challenges for clients. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$135.0M**. - **AUM Served**: Services over **$6.4 trillion** in gross AUM and over **$1.2 trillion** in sell-side capital balances. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by the **D. E. Shaw group**, **Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing**, and a strategic investment from **J.P. Morgan**. Key partnership includes **Bloomberg** (Data License Plus) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcesium). - **Growth Signals**: - **Headcount**: 2,309 employees (+12.8% YoY). - **Global Expansion**: Opened a new office in **Lisbon, Portugal** (July 2024) and a new office in **Hong Kong** (January 2026) to support APAC growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcesium). - **Product Innovation**: Launched the Opterra platform and the Aquata® Marketplace in 2024-2025. - **AI Focus**: Launched an AI platform purpose-built for institutional investment management (May 2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcesium). ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep Domain Expertise**: Originated from the D. E. Shaw group, giving it an unparalleled understanding of the complex operational and data challenges faced by sophisticated investment firms. - **Cloud-Native Architecture**: Unlike legacy providers, Arcesium’s platform is built from the ground up to be cloud-native, offering scalability and modern data management. - **Strategic Backing**: Strong financial and strategic backing from J.P. Morgan, Blackstone, and D.E. Shaw provides stability, credibility, and a deep client network. - **Consultative Approach**: Combines technology with deep operational expertise, acting as a partner rather than just a software vendor. ## Strategic Focus - **AI & Data Readiness**: Accelerating the development of AI-powered tools (e.g., Aquata® Marketplace) to help clients unlock insights and prepare for an AI-driven future. - **Global Expansion**: Deepening presence in Europe (Lisbon) and Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong) to capture new markets and talent pools. - **Platform Unification**: Driving adoption of the Opterra platform to consolidate disparate systems and create a single source of truth for clients. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, product, and client-facing roles to support product growth and client demand. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Compensation**: Rated **4.0/5.0** on employer review sites, with strong scores for **Compensation (4.2)** and **Culture (4.2)**. The company emphasizes a collaborative culture that values intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and professional development [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcesium). - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/Office-based depending on the role. The company operates major tech hubs in **Bengaluru, Gurugram, and Hyderabad (India)**, **New York (HQ)**, **Lisbon (Portugal)**, **London (UK)**, and **Stockholm (Sweden)**. Some roles (e.g., Product Manager) are listed as remote within the US [Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcesiumllc). - **Engineering & Innovation**: A strong technical culture with a focus on software engineering, platform reliability, and distributed systems. The company actively hosts hackathons and invests in R&D. - **Growth Trajectory**: As a fast-growing private company backed by industry giants, employees have the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact problems at scale, with clear career progression paths visible from the organizational structure. ## Sources 1. [Arcesium Official Website](https://www.arcesium.com/) 2. [Arcesium Careers Page](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcesiumllc) 3. 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