Jobs · Engineering · Illinois

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.

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