Trading Operations Engineer (SRE)

Trading Operations Engineer (SRE)Salary: $300k-400kTotal compensation: flexible and dependent on seniority, expectations and performanceI'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 doOwn reliability, availability and resilience for latency-sensitive production trading systemsDrive Linux performance engineering and manage low-latency, on-prem trading infrastructureBuild and improve monitoring, observability and incident management practicesTroubleshoot complex production issues end to end and lead root cause analysisAutomate platform operations in Python to reduce toil and improve efficiencyPartner directly with researchers, engineers and traders to keep trading performing at its bestWhat you’ll bringStrong Linux experience, ideally including performance tuning and troubleshootingDirect experience supporting trading systemsExperience running on-prem, production infrastructureStrong Python coding skills for automation and toolingA calm, ownership-driven approach to incidents and a commitment to continuous improvementWhy this roleWork close to trading, with visible impact from your work every dayBe part of a very successful and collaborative quant firmHigh-performance engineering environment with significant scope and autonomyHighly competitive compensation