Trading Platform Engineer, Systematic Trading

Key Responsibilities

• Provide production support for a high-performance, low-latency trading platform in a live trading environment.
• Monitor system health, trading workflows, and platform behavior to ensure reliability and rapid issue detection.
• Respond to production incidents, drive triage and resolution, and coordinate effectively across trading, development, and infrastructure teams.
• Support front-office users by investigating trading issues, answering workflow questions, and helping resolve time-sensitive 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.
• Help 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.