Our Client is a proprietary systematic trading firm that provides liquidity to the global cryptocurrency markets. They run a suite of high frequency, low latency, delta neutral market making strategies on a wide variety of exchanges that reliably deliver alpha in all market conditions.
They are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their rapidly growing team and help manage and grow a suite of systematic strategies that trades tens of billions of dollars a month.
You will play a crucial role in helping to build, monitor, debug, and maintain the infrastructure behind our clients trading strategies. As a result, you will also have a direct and measurable impact on P&L and commensurately share in the upside of the firm.
Expectations
The ideal candidate:
- Exhibits strong logical reasoning
- Possesses strong quantitative skills alongside attention to detail
- Displays an entrepreneurial mindset with high energy and a can-do attitude
- Enjoys problem solving and has no fear of learning and doing detailed work to get to desired results
- Prefers simplicity and pragmatism, likes to take a lean and iterative approach to solving problems
- Embraces 80/20 thinking
- Proactively seeks out ways to automate and improve areas of the business they are assigned to
- Uses a deeply data-backed approach to decision making and communicating ideas
- Clearly communicates how data implies a particular conclusion; considers and explains alternative explanations for what the data shows
- Thrives in a culture of passionate learning and teaching
- Loves to reflect on challenges and improve process
- Possesses humility and expresses kindness to self and others
- Keeps on top of crypto industry news and updates
- Must be currently located in Hong Kong
- Collaborates effectively with trading and engineering team members to define and refine technical requirements and then execute on them
- Cares about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes
- Wants to be part of an organization with a transparent and agile environment where you can communicate freely and openly
- 1+ years of full time technical experience, ideally in DevOps roles
- Experience administering Linux systems; intimate familiarity on the command line
- Very comfortable using vi(m)
- Python 3.9+
- Git and GitHub
- PostgreSQL (especially with query performance tuning)
- Solid grasp of best practices in security principles
- Deep understanding of AWS products (EC2, VPC, VGW, RDS)
- Network / routing
- Latency testing
- Strong written and verbal English language skills
- Love of Rust
Nice to Haves
- Have experience in a quantitative trading firm (either tradfi or crypto native)
- Have experience coding own trading strategies
- Ability to use Github or other source control management to understand code diffs
- Experience and understanding of the various major crypto exchanges