Trading Production Operations Engineer – High-frequency Trading

About the Role

We are partnering with a top-tier global high-frequency trading firm to expand their core Trading Technology Operations teams. This is a high-stakes position where you will work as a hands-on engineer, sitting side-by-side with traders, researchers, and developers to automate workflows, safeguard system performance, and drive operational excellence.

They are looking for talent across various experience levels and locations, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, the UK, Dubai, and Shanghai. The firm welcomes global candidates and provides full visa sponsorship and relocation support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Front-Line Trading Support: Deliver real-time technical resolution on fast-paced trading floors. Diagnose complex system behavior, minimize downtime, and troubleshoot mission-critical incidents under pressure.
• Resilience & Post-Mortem Engineering: Design, tune, and monitor distributed architecture to meet demanding throughput and latency thresholds.
• Automation Scaling: Build automation workflows to eliminate manual toil while retaining precise operational control.
• Deployment & Release Management: Manage the release lifecycle for upcoming systems, exchanges, and financial instruments, ensuring robust preparation and risk mitigation for high-impact corporate updates.
• Platform Operations & Telemetry: Manage day-to-day application health by running routine deployments, fine-tuning system configurations, and monitoring performance metrics to prevent issues before they impact production.

Key Requirements:

• Solid technical comfort in Linux environments (L2/L3 production engineering).
• Good Python (or similar) scripting skills with practical experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to drive global, cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Experience with latency-sensitive system engineering.
• Effective communicator, able to clearly explain technical concepts and ask insightful questions.
• You are a self-driven individual with a strong interest in hardware-software interaction, low-level systems engineering, rapid problem-solving, and continuous technical growth in fast-moving settings.

Note: Prior financial market / HFT experience is a plus, not a hard requirement.