Senior Trading System Support Engineer
FalconX provides institutional access to digital asset markets through deep liquidity, financing solutions, and technology infrastructure for global institutions.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About FalconX
FalconX operates an institutional prime brokerage serving hedge funds, asset managers, family offices, and financial institutions. The platform implements unified liquidity access across Multiple exchanges and OTC desks, providing spot trading, derivatives, custody, and financing solutions. FalconX enables clients to execute strategies with minimal slippage through proprietary technology and 24/7 market coverage.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will automate and operate trading-platform infrastructure, provide production support, monitor system health, resolve incidents, and participate in on-call rotations. You will improve deployment speed and latency, maintain security controls, manage service requests and issue priorities, and build monitoring, reporting, and release-automation capabilities.
Requirements
- Site reliability engineering
- DevOps
- Linux
- Kernel
- Memory management
- File system
- Network I/O
- Bash
- Trading lifecycle
- Order lifecycle
- Electronic trading platform
- OMS
- EMS
- ITIL
- Incident management
- Problem management
- Change management
- System monitoring
- TCP/IP
- UDP
- FIX
- Aeron
- Observability
- Debugging
- Performance tuning
- Grafana
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- ArgoCD
- Ansible
- C
- C++
- Java
- Python
- Go
- CMake
- CI/CD
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
Responsibilities
- Build and manage systems, infrastructure, and applications through automation
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, efficiency, and latency
- Provide operational support for internal platform users
- Practice incident response and blameless postmortems
- Participate in an on-call rotation and serve as an escalation contact
- Implement infrastructure security practices
- Monitor and resolve system-health and performance issues
- Manage user queries, service requests, and production incidents
- Manage trading-support initiatives including monitoring, reporting, and release automation