Senior Trading Operations Engineer
Sparkland
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Dubai
Experience
Senior
Benefits
Requirements
Required Skills
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Ability to lead the team in the future
- Monitor and manage the real-time operation of high-frequency trading systems.
- Troubleshoot, resolve, and escalate system issues as needed to maintain high availability.
- Analyze system performance metrics (e.g., latency) using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent solutions.
- Collaborate with software engineers, traders, and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability and efficiency.
- Automate processes and manage deployments with A/B testing to enhance operational workflows.
- Manage configurations using tools like Ansible and support CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to system documentation and provide feedback on process improvements.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to handle critical incidents outside regular hours.
- Show initiative in identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8-10 years of IT or software engineering experience.
- Experience in high-frequency trading or other latency-sensitive distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of Python scripting for automation and tooling.
- Proficiency with Linux systems, including shell scripting and networking tools.
- Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ElasticSearch, or ClickHouse.
- Experience with AWS cloud services.
- Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and CI/CD systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with incident management frameworks and best practices.
- Exposure to containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of distributed databases (e.g., ClickHouse).
Benefits
- The opportunity to work in a thriving, multicultural, fun environment in one of the world’s fastest-growing industries.
- Corporate workations: we regularly go on corporate trips to unique locations worldwide to work, explore the local culture, and get to know each other better.
- Opportunities to learn cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.
- Competitive compensation and performance-based incentives.
- The chance to work with talented professionals in the HFT and crypto trading space.
- An attractive relocation package if needed – tickets, employment visa, Emirates ID.
About the Company
We are a team of highly-driven individuals who are passionate about technology, algorithmic trading, and solving intellectually challenging problems. Being a part of Sparkland means you get to work with some of the brightest people in one of the world’s fastest-growing and most exciting industries. We are fully remote and have a flat corporate structure that values open-mindedness, entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to excellence, and continuous learning.
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