Senior DevOps Engineer, FalconX
Trading Systems
$171-246k
Plus bonus and equity
Digital asset trading platform
Job no longer available
Digital asset trading platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$171-246k
Plus bonus and equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the connective tissue for open, permission-less, and truly global digital assets to be adopted by mainstream institutions at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelors with 5+ years of working experience as Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Devops Engineer
- Proven expertise in optimizing low latency performance and productionizing trading systems from initial concept to full deployment, including on-prem and colocation
- Proficient in utilizing C++ build systems such as CMake and building CI/CD pipelines for trading systems
- Experience in building out trading systems infrastructure and familiar with multicast message bus such as Aeron messaging frameworks.
- Expertise in establishing best practices for trading systems deployment
- Proficient in designing infrastructure and network solutions for trading systems
- Experience with programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go
- Knowledge of Linux internals and bash scripting
- Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning, willing to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
- Strong experience in managing infrastructure with providers like AWS
- Strong experience in Cloud Native technologies in kubernetes, docker etc
- Basic knowledge of RDBMS systems like mysql
- Understanding of networking protocols such as TCP/IP and UDP
Desirable
- Expertise in automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Atlantis
- Expertise in devops tooling like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github Actions
- Expertise in advanced observability (USE-RED signals, Tracing, front end observability etc) and monitoring stacks, preferably Grafana stack
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive
- Extensive experience in supporting production systems as SRE
- Experience in setting up monitoring stack for process and docker based environments
- Experience with hardware acceleration technologies (FPGAs, GPUs)
- Experience with financial data security regulations (PCI DSS, SOC 2)
- Familiarity with algorithmic trading strategies and quantitative analysis concepts
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
FalconX is driving the decentralised financial future with its digital asset trading platform, catering specifically to institutional users. Offering a suite of tools, from trade execution to market making and credit management, FalconX simplifies crypto strategy management through a unified interface.
Renowned institutions like Accel and Tiger Global have adopted FlaconX, recognising it as a leader in the space. Notably, the company earned the prestigious FinTech Breakthrough's 2023 DeFi Innovation Award for its FalconX 60 platform, a testament to its pioneering role in digital investment and risk management.
As institutional demand for crypto assets surges in the Asia-Pacific region, FalconX is expanding its footprint into Hong Kong. The company's decision to offer over-the-counter brokerage and crypto derivatives services aligns with the region's growing interest in virtual assert innovation and regulatory advancements. With a commitment to innovation and a proactive approach to expansion, FalonX is well-positioned to further solidify its position as a leading player in the digital asset trading space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$150m
SERIES D
Aug 2021
$210m
SERIES C
Total funding: $427m
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Raghu Yarlagadda
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder and CTO at Sarada Educational Institutions. Former Advisory Board Member at JoyUp, and Product Lead at eightfold.ai.
Prabhakar Reddy
(Co-Founder)Previously an Investor with Accel Partners, Partner at Singularity Ventures, and CEO at Dramatize. Also co-founded and was CEO of nFusion.
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