Senior Trading Systems DevOps Engineer

About the role

FalconX is a team of operators, investors and builders focused on giving institutional access to crypto markets, bridging traditional finance and technology. It is looking for a Senior Trading Systems DevOps Engineer in New York City to build, scale and optimize its core low-latency trading platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Build, scale and optimize core low-latency trading platforms.
• Architect AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure for microsecond execution using kernel tuning (isolcpus), AWS Placement Groups and enhanced networking (ENA/ENI).
• Design and maintain release pipelines for core trading engines (OMS, EMS, Gateways) with zero-downtime deployments and deterministic rollbacks.
• Provision high-throughput messaging paths (Aeron, FIX gateways) for venue expansions.
• Drive infrastructure automation, network topology and OS configuration with Terraform and Ansible.
• Build real-time telemetry pipelines with Grafana Cloud, Alloy and Prometheus to detect latency spikes.
• Reduce tick-to-trade latency, improve deployment cycles, practice sustainable incident response, reduce MTTR, set error budgets and run blameless postmortems.
• Share on-call duties and act as a primary escalation point for production incidents.
• Enforce security best practices across trading infrastructure.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure or Systems Engineer in low-latency electronic trading environments.
• Proven track record producing low-latency trading systems across cloud, on-prem and colocation environments.
• Deep Linux kernel knowledge (performance tuning, memory management, network I/O) and hands-on AWS low-latency optimization.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for stateful trading systems and with FIX protocol and Aeron messaging.

Required skills

• Terraform and Ansible
• Docker, Docker Compose and Kubernetes
• Grafana Cloud, Alloy and Prometheus
• Python and Bash scripting
• Preferred: Rust or Java, canary/blue-green releases, SLOs and SLAs, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis

The expected base pay is $179,000-$226,000 in the New York City area, with possible bonus, equity and a benefits package.