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Senior DevOps Engineer (Trading Systems)

New York City, NY

Who are we?

FalconX is the most advanced digital asset platform for institutions. We provide trade execution, credit & treasury management, prime offering and market making services. Given our global operations, industry-leading technology and deep liquidity, we have facilitated client transactions of $1 trillion in volume. Our products & services are regulated, compliant and trusted.

We are a team of engineers, product builders, institutional sales and trading leaders, operations experts, and business strategists. Our teammates have entrepreneurial experience and come from companies such as Google, Apple, Paypal, Citadel, Bridgewater, and Goldman Sachs. And, we embody our values: Think big; Drive bold outcomes; Be one team; Iterate with speed; and be an entrepreneur.

We prioritize learning. Outcomes are mission-critical, but we also believe that learning in success and in failure will drive our continued success. Our industry is emergent - there’s no shortage of experiments to get involved with and to continue growing and learning together. 

Responsibilities

  • Be part of a trading systems engineering team, dedicated to building out the core trading platforms.
  • Work closely with cross functional teams to improve the system reliability, scalability and security.
  • Engage in and improve the infrastructure quality supporting the platform.
  • Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation.
  • Provide operational support to internal teams working on the platform.
  • Work on improvements to bring in high efficiency, reduce latency, deploy systems faster.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
  • Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.
  • Implement and maintain rigorous security best practices across all infrastructure, with a focus on minimizing attack surface and ensuring data integrity.
  • Monitor system health and performance with a keen eye for identifying and resolving issues before they affect trading activity.

 Minimum Qualification

  • Bachelors with 5+ years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
  • Strong knowledge of Linux system internals (kernels, memory management, file systems & network I/O optimization) as well as bash scripting.
  • Proven expertise optimizing systems for lowest latency performance and productionizing trading systems, from initial concept to full deployment, including on-prem and colocation.
  • Strong working knowledge of network communications fundamentals TCP/IP and UDP
  • Knowledge of FIX protocol, as well as familiarity with low latency multicast with Aeron.
  • Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, with a willingness to dive-deep to determine the root cause, 
  • Effective communicator, with the ability to explain root causes in plain language, then outline plans and recommendations to remediate and ultimately to execute plans that systematically resolve issues.
  • Demonstrated ability to build tools that enable rapid operational triage; leveraging logs, performance telemetry metrics and traces to make Grafana dashboards (or similar) 
  • Strong experience deploying and managing Cloud infrastructure with providers like AWS, Azure and/or GCP (accounts, profiles, IAM roles, Policies, service classes, instance types, etc.)
  • Strong experience adapting workloads to use Cloud Native technologies, like kubernetes and docker etc. (Dockerfile, docker-compose, helm charts, deploy manifest, ingress wiring, service mesh, etc.)
  • Expertise using devops deployment tooling, like Github Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD and Ansible.
  • Hands-on experience developing in one or more programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.
  • Proficient in utilizing C++ build systems such as CMake and building CI/CD pipelines for trading systems.
  • Working knowledge of key backing services like mysql, PostgresDB, Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.

Preferred Qualification

  • Extensive experience with DevOps for Deployment automation and App level support, as well as SRE and/or Linux systems Administrator for systems and infrastructure level support.
  • Extensive experience in a Low Latency Electronic trading environment, where high performance is critical at all stages of the infrastructure, network and application design and implementation.
  • Expertise in developing advanced observability capabilities (USE-RED signals, Tracing, front end observability etc) 

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with hardware acceleration technologies (FPGAs, GPUs, LPU, TPU).
  • Experience with financial data security regulations (PCI DSS, SOC 2).
  • Familiarity with algorithmic trading strategies and quantitative analysis concepts.



 
Base pay for this role is expected to be between $171,000 and $291,000 USD. This expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role will also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance linked bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for a successful candidate will be determined based on a number of factors such as skillset, experience, and qualifications.

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