Systems Engineer High Frequency Trading Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund

Systems Engineer – High Frequency Trading – Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund – Multiple Headcount – Lucrative Compensation Package

My client a multi-billion dollar high frequency trading firm is seeking a talented Systems Engineer. You'll collaborate with elite software and research engineers, playing a mission-critical role in ensuring the availability, reliability, and performance of some of the most advanced trading systems in the world.

What You’ll Do

Automate and Scale: Spearhead initiatives to fully automate trading, research, and development environments to operate 24/7 across global markets.

Tooling & Monitoring: Build high-performance tooling in Python, Go, or Rust to streamline CI/CD pipelines, enhance environment observability, and minimize latency.

Incident Management: Own the health of production trading platforms — providing real-time support, proactive monitoring, and incident response to minimize risk and downtime.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with quant researchers, traders, developers, and infra teams to ensure seamless delivery of new strategies and system improvements.

Project Leadership: Lead or contribute to strategic projects across onboarding, trading automation, anomaly detection, and intelligent system diagnostics.

Ideal Candidate Background

3+ years in SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Trading Support within a high-performance environment.

Hands-on with Unix/Linux, production troubleshooting, and managing complex distributed systems.

Fluency in Python, Go, or Rust; strong scripting background is a must.

Experience supporting FIX protocol, automated trade flows, or trading platform configuration.

Knowledge of CI/CD systems, observability frameworks, and cloud-based infrastructure (AWS preferred).

Bonus: Exposure to LLMs, ML pipelines, or advanced data processing in latency-sensitive systems.

Why Join?

Work alongside world-class engineers and traders at a top-tier prop shop.

Highly competitive base salary + performance-driven bonus structure.

Direct ownership over high-impact, mission-critical systems and initiatives.

Access to cutting-edge tools in low-latency, machine learning, and automated trading infrastructure.

Grow within a technology-first environment that values innovation, mentorship, and continual improvement.