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Trading Engineer - Strategy

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-06-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and maintain high-performance trading systems, automate operational processes, and ensure system reliability during live trading sessions.

Role type

Senior IC Trading Engineer (Strategy/SRE)

Builds

Automated trading infrastructure and reliability tools for a global trading firm

Domain

Financial markets / High-frequency trading / Real-time systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Linux administration, Kubernetes, distributed systems architecture, incident response, root cause analysis, SQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Kafka

Preferred skills

SRE background, real-time system experience, automation mindset

Responsibilities

Monitor system health and performance in real time, respond to market-driven incidents, build tools to eliminate manual processes, collaborate with traders and quants to improve the trading stack, challenge existing processes to drive reliability and performance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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