CareerPlan

Production Engineer / SRE - Trading Systems- Leading Quantitative Trading Firms

London, England, GBFull-time£180k–£400k2026-10-08 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and maintain high-reliability production trading infrastructure, ensuring system resilience and failure recovery for live quantitative trading environments.

Role type

Senior Production Engineer / SRE (Trading Systems)

Builds

Production trading infrastructure, monitoring/observability platforms, and automation tools for complex distributed systems.

Domain

Financial Technology (Quantitative Trading) / Distributed Systems

Required skills

Linux systems administration, Python/Go/C++/Rust programming, distributed systems architecture, networking, incident investigation, performance engineering, automation scripting, debugging complex systems.

Preferred skills

Experience with large-scale production environments, resilience engineering, capacity planning.

Technologies

Linux, Python, Go, C++, Rust, distributed systems, monitoring/observability tools.

Responsibilities

Design resilient systems for failure recovery, automate operational workflows, investigate and resolve critical production incidents, optimize system performance and capacity, manage deployment and configuration platforms.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC