Senior Trading Systems DevOps Engineer
FalconX provides institutional access to digital asset markets through deep liquidity, financing solutions, and technology infrastructure for global institutions.
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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will build, scale, and optimize low-latency trading platforms and their AWS and hybrid-cloud infrastructure. You will automate infrastructure, operate release and telemetry pipelines, improve reliability and performance, support incident response and on-call rotations, and enforce security across trading systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of Infrastructure or Systems Engineering experience in low-latency electronic trading environments
- Linux kernel performance tuning, memory management, and network I/O optimization
- AWS low-latency infrastructure expertise
- Experience productionizing low-latency trading systems across cloud, on-premises, and colocation environments
- CI/CD pipeline experience for stateful trading systems
- FIX protocol and Aeron messaging experience
- Physical network design, TCP/IP, UDP, WebSockets, and low-latency routing knowledge
- Terraform and Ansible proficiency
- Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes experience
- Container image security experience
- Grafana Cloud, Alloy, or Prometheus expertise
- Python and Bash scripting fluency
Responsibilities
- Build, scale, and optimize low-latency trading platforms
- Architect AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure for microsecond execution
- Design and maintain release pipelines for trading engines
- Enhance platform reliability, performance, scalability, and security
- Provision messaging paths for venue expansions
- Automate infrastructure, network topology, and OS configurations
- Build real-time telemetry pipelines
- Reduce tick-to-trade latency and accelerate deployment cycles
- Practice incident response, establish error budgets, and conduct blameless postmortems
- Share on-call duties and serve as an escalation point for production incidents
- Enforce security best practices across trading infrastructure
Benefits
- Performance-linked bonus
- Equity
- Competitive benefits package