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Trading Engineer - Strategy

Chicago, IL, US💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$225,000🗓 2026-06-28 → 2026-07-28

Core

Build and maintain high-performance trading systems, automations, and monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and speed during market hours.

Role type

Senior IC Trading Engineer (Strategy/SRE)

Builds

Real-time trading infrastructure, automated operational tools, and monitoring systems for a global trading firm.

Domain

Financial Markets / High-Frequency Trading / Systems Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure | product features

Required skills

Python, Linux administration, Kubernetes, distributed systems architecture, root cause analysis, SQL/MongoDB, InfluxDB, Kafka, Prometheus

Preferred skills

SRE background, real-time systems experience, proactive problem-solving, ability to work under pressure

Technologies

Python, Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, SQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Kafka

Responsibilities

Monitor system health and performance in real time, respond to market-driven incidents, build tools to automate manual processes, collaborate with traders and quants to improve the trading stack, identify root causes in distributed architectures, drive reliability and performance through engineering excellence

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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