Lead Software Engineer, DevOps - Electronic Market Making
Core
Support the reliability, automation, and operational efficiency of a high-performance, latency-sensitive trading platform for electronic market making.
Role type
Lead Software Engineer, DevOps (Site Reliability Engineering)
Builds
CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, artifact management, deployment topologies, and monitoring tooling for global trading systems.
Domain
Financial Services / Electronic Market Making / High-Frequency Trading
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Python scripting, Bash/shell scripting, Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS), CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitLab CI), configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Salt), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), C/C++ build systems, incident management, distributed multi-region system support.
Preferred skills
Low-latency environment support, electronic trading concepts (exchange connectivity, market data feeds, order routing), observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK), message-oriented middleware (AMPS, Kafka), equities/options/futures market structure knowledge, regulated financial environment experience.
Responsibilities
Maintain CI/CD pipeline infrastructure; implement automation for operational workflows and environment provisioning; manage and troubleshoot Linux-based production environments; contribute to infrastructure-as-code; build and operate monitoring and alerting tooling; assist with network configuration for market data and exchange connectivity; follow reliability practices including failover and disaster recovery; develop internal developer tooling; collaborate with engineering and platform teams on operational improvements.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership in operational efficiency.