Senior Trading Systems DevOps Engineer

FalconX•New York, NY

6h•$179,000 - $226,000

About The Position

FalconX is a team of operators, investors, and builders working to improve institutional access to cryptocurrency markets. It provides services for digital asset strategies and aims to help clients navigate the cryptocurrency landscape. The Senior Trading Systems DevOps Engineer builds and optimizes low-latency trading infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and colocation environments. The role focuses on reliable, secure, high-performance trading systems, release automation, observability, and incident response.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of experience as an Infrastructure or Systems Engineer in low-latency electronic trading environments.
Deep Linux kernel knowledge, including performance tuning, memory management, and network I/O optimization such as isolcpus, CPU pinning, and ring buffers.
Hands-on expertise optimizing AWS low-latency constructs, including Placement Groups, ENA/ENI, and high-performance EC2 selection.
Track record of productionizing low-latency trading systems across cloud, on-premises, and colocation environments.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines for stateful trading systems using Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions.
Direct experience with FIX protocol execution flows and low-latency Aeron messaging (IPC/UDP).
Strong knowledge of physical network design, TCP/IP, UDP, WebSockets, and low-latency routing.
Advanced proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Ansible for configuration management.
Experience managing containerized workloads using Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes.
Experience securing container base images using minimal distributions such as Chainguard.
Expertise in observability, debugging, and system tuning using Grafana Cloud, Alloy, or Prometheus.
Fluency in Python and Bash scripting.

Nice To Haves

Development exposure to Rust or Java for cross-functional debugging of execution engines.
Experience implementing operational frameworks such as SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets for trading desks.
Deployment expertise with canary and blue/green release strategies for stateful systems.
Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills under time-sensitive conditions.
Working knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
Exposure to algorithmic trading strategies, market-making mechanics, or cryptocurrency exchange APIs.

Responsibilities

Build, scale, and optimize core low-latency trading platforms.
Architect AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure for microsecond execution, including kernel tuning, AWS Placement Groups, and enhanced networking.
Design and maintain release pipelines for trading engines, OMS, EMS, and gateways, supporting zero-downtime deployments and deterministic rollbacks.
Collaborate across teams to improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, and security.
Provision high-throughput messaging paths, including Aeron and FIX gateways, to support venue expansion, market making, and regional growth.
Automate infrastructure, network topology, and operating-system configurations using Terraform and Ansible.
Build real-time telemetry pipelines using Grafana Cloud, Alloy, and Prometheus to detect latency spikes and system issues.
Improve platform efficiency, reduce tick-to-trade latency, and accelerate deployment cycles.
Practice sustainable incident response, reduce MTTR, establish error budgets, and conduct blameless postmortems.
Participate in the on-call rotation and serve as a primary escalation point for production incidents.
Enforce security best practices across trading infrastructure to minimize attack surfaces and ensure data integrity.