Trading Engineer
Trading Engineer
We have partnered with a prestigious high-frequency trading firm to find an experienced Trading Engineer to join their strategy development team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for providing technical support to traders and developers, ensuring the performance, stability, and reliability of their trading systems. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the success of a high-performance trading firm, working with cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues related to proprietary trading applications.
- Communicate incident statuses and resolutions to users.
- Monitor trading system performance, identify issues, and implement solutions.
- Ensure the uptime and reliability of applications and systems during trading hours.
- Develop automation tools and scripts to reduce operational overhead.
- Conduct analysis on complex, multi-faceted systems (e.g., root cause analysis).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new features and services that enhance the performance, reliability, and scalability of trading systems.
Required Skills and Experience:
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- More than 3 years of experience in application support, site reliability engineering, or a similar role focused on high-performance applications.
- Hands-on experience in a production Kubernetes environment.
- Proficiency in creating tools and scripts using Python and Bash.
- Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus), databases (e.g., SQL, MongoDB), and data-driven analysis is preferred.
- Knowledge of CentOS or related enterprise Linux distributions.
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