Trading Operations Engineer (SRE)
Salary: $300k-400k
Total compensation: flexible and dependent on seniority, expectations and performance
I'm partnered with a leading quantitative trading firm (~200 employees) hiring a Trading Operations Engineer to own the reliability, performance and operational excellence of its mission-critical systematic trading platforms.
These systems run around the clock across global markets, and you’ll sit alongside the quantitative researchers, algo engineers, traders and operations teams who depend on them.
What you’ll do
- Own reliability, availability and resilience for latency-sensitive production trading systems
- Drive Linux performance engineering and manage low-latency, on-prem trading infrastructure
- Build and improve monitoring, observability and incident management practices
- Troubleshoot complex production issues end to end and lead root cause analysis
- Automate platform operations in Python to reduce toil and improve efficiency
- Partner directly with researchers, engineers and traders to keep trading performing at its best
What you’ll bring
- Strong Linux experience, ideally including performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Direct experience supporting trading systems
- Experience running on-prem, production infrastructure
- Strong Python coding skills for automation and tooling
- A calm, ownership-driven approach to incidents and a commitment to continuous improvement
Why this role
- Work close to trading, with visible impact from your work every day
- Be part of a very successful and collaborative quant firm
- High-performance engineering environment with significant scope and autonomy
- Highly competitive compensation
Trading Operations Engineer (SRE) in New York City Metropolitan Area at NJF Global Holdings Ltd
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted 5 days ago.