Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Technology
Balyasny Asset Management L.P. · Chicago, IL · 6 days ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Provide production support for a high-performance, low-latency trading platform in a live trading environment.
- Maintain system health, monitor trading workflows, and analyze platform behavior for reliability and rapid issue detection.
- Respond to production incidents, coordinate across teams, and resolve time-sensitive production problems.
- Support front-office users by investigating trading issues, answering workflow questions, and resolving production problems.
- Own and improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and operational dashboards across the trading platform.
- Develop and enhance automation, runbooks, and operational tools to improve supportability and reduce operational risk.
- Perform root cause analysis on production issues and drive follow-up actions to improve platform resilience.
- Monitor and investigate data quality, platform behavior, and workflow exceptions across trading and market data processes.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve recoverability, observability, and operational readiness of trading applications.
- Define and maintain operational standards, support procedures, and production controls.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience in production engineering, SRE, or application support within real-time or trading environments.
- Experience supporting business-critical production systems with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis.
- Experience supporting front-office users in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application and system behavior in a Linux environment.
- Strong attention to detail, operational discipline, and focus on platform stability.
- Able to work effectively with trading, research, and engineering teams.
- Scripting or automation experience in Python or similar.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting systematic trading, electronic trading, or market data platforms.
- Familiarity with order lifecycle, execution workflows, and trading controls.
- Experience with telemetry platforms, logging, metrics, and production diagnostics.
- Exposure to low-latency environments and real-time operational support.
- Proficiency in SQL and databases.