Trading Operations Engineer

<p>The Trading Operations Production Support Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and scaling Optiver’s low-latency trading systems. The team ensures a safe, stable, and efficient production environment while supporting profitability and sustainable growth across various regions. Collaborating closely with traders, development, and operational teams, the engineer will deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide technical expertise and support to high-frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents in a fast-paced, dynamic setting.</li> <li>Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance in the trading environment.</li> <li>Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency.</li> <li>Coordinate deployments of new trading products, systems, and exchanges, ensuring readiness for events such as corporate actions or special announcements.</li> <li>Architect and maintain services to maximize reliability, ensuring the trading systems operate within performance thresholds.</li> <li>Collaborate with development teams to establish best practices and ensure the long-term stability of production systems, even under extreme conditions.</li> <li>Set standards for system configuration and deployment to minimize risks and support smooth scaling.</li> <li>Manage the colocation to ensure the right level of redundancy and capacity for growth is available.</li> <li>Automate system management processes, while maintaining control over critical operations.<br><br></li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are<br></strong>Technical Skills:</p> <ul> <li>Solid experience managing complex distributed systems in Linux environments (L2/L3 support), with a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, build, deployment, and version control systems.</li> <li>Proficiency with CI/CD tooling and scripting in Python or similar languages to automate tasks.</li> <li>Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) or other database systems.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to drive system improvements and work across global teams to deliver changes.</li> </ul> <p>Non-Technical Skills:</p> <ul> <li>A collaborative team player with a positive attitude, capable of coordinating effectively across departments.</li> <li>A pragmatic and logical thinker who thrives under pressure in high-intensity environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incide