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Senior Trade Support Engineer – High Frequency Trading – Prop Trading Firm – Lucrative Compensation Package - Open to Relocation - Up to $650k TC

Senior Trade Support Engineer – High Frequency Trading – Prop Trading Firm – Lucrative Compensation Package - Open to Relocation - Up to $650k TC

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Senior Production Engineer – High Frequency Trading – Prop Trading Firm – Lucrative Compensation Package - Open to Relocation - Up to $650k TC

My client a multi-billion dollar high frequency trading firm is seeking a talented Systems Engineer. You'll collaborate with elite software and research engineers, playing a mission-critical role in ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of some of the most advanced trading systems in the world.

What You’ll Do

• Automate and Scale: Spearhead initiatives to fully automate trading, research, and development environments to operate 24/7 across global markets.
• Tooling & Monitoring: Build high-performance tooling in Python, Go, or Rust to streamline CI/CD pipelines, enhance environment observability, and minimize latency.
• Incident Management: Own the health of production trading platforms — providing real-time support, proactive monitoring, and incident response to minimize risk and downtime.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with quant researchers, traders, developers, and infra teams to ensure seamless delivery of new strategies and system improvements.
• Project Leadership: Lead or contribute to strategic projects across onboarding, trading automation, anomaly detection, and intelligent system diagnostics.

Ideal Candidate Background

• 10+ years in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Trading Support within a high-performance environment.
• Hands-on with Unix/Linux , production troubleshooting, and managing complex distributed systems.
• Fluency in Python , Go , or Rust ; strong scripting background is a must.
• Experience supporting FIX protocol , automated trade flows, or trading platform configuration.
• Knowledge of CI/CD systems, observability frameworks, and cloud-based infrastructure (AWS preferred).
• Bonus: Exposure to LLMs , ML pipelines, or advanced data processing in latency-sensitive systems.

Why Join?

• Work alongside world-class engineers and traders at a top-tier prop shop .
• Highly competitive base salary + performance-driven bonus structure.
• Direct ownership over high-impact, mission-critical systems and initiatives.
• Access to cutting-edge tools in low-latency , machine learning , and automated trading infrastructure .
• Grow within a technology-first environment that values innovation, mentorship, and continual improvement.

If you're passionate about building robust, high-performance trading systems and thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership roles — apply now.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering, Finance, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development, Financial Services, and Engineering Services

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