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Senior Trading Systems DevOps Engineer

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Description

You will build, scale, and optimize low-latency trading platforms and their AWS and hybrid-cloud infrastructure. You will automate infrastructure, operate release and telemetry pipelines, improve reliability and performance, support incident response and on-call rotations, and enforce security across trading systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build, scale, and optimize low-latency trading platforms
  • Architect AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure for microsecond execution
  • Design and maintain release pipelines for trading engines
  • Enhance platform reliability, performance, scalability, and security
  • Provision messaging paths for venue expansions
  • Automate infrastructure, network topology, and OS configurations
  • Build real-time telemetry pipelines
  • Reduce tick-to-trade latency and accelerate deployment cycles
  • Practice incident response, establish error budgets, and conduct blameless postmortems
  • Share on-call duties and serve as an escalation point for production incidents
  • Enforce security best practices across trading infrastructure

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of Infrastructure or Systems Engineering experience in low-latency electronic trading environments
  • Linux kernel performance tuning, memory management, and network I/O optimization
  • AWS low-latency infrastructure expertise
  • Experience productionizing low-latency trading systems across cloud, on-premises, and colocation environments
  • CI/CD pipeline experience for stateful trading systems
  • FIX protocol and Aeron messaging experience
  • Physical network design, TCP/IP, UDP, WebSockets, and low-latency routing knowledge
  • Terraform and Ansible proficiency
  • Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes experience
  • Container image security experience
  • Grafana Cloud, Alloy, or Prometheus expertise
  • Python and Bash scripting fluency

Benefits

  • Performance-linked bonus
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits package

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