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Trading Systems Engineer

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship
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at Flow Traders

Proprietary Trading

Posted 3 days ago

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This employer did not include a short summary.

Compensation
$190,000 – $235,000 USD

Currency: $ (USD)

City
Chicago
Country
United States

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Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Engineer who can elevate our GCPfocused platform-especially GKE-while maintaining strong Linux and networking fundamentals. Our trading platforms span both ultralowlatency baremetal systems and modern cloudnative services. This role bridges onprem and cloud environments, strengthens global platform standards, and drives highimpact improvements that enhance reliability, reduce toil, and support timesensitive trading workloads.

What you will do

  • Serve as the USbased SME for our GCP platform with a strong focus on GKE workloadsworking within globally aligned standards while contributing your own expertise to improve Terraformdriven infrastructure and shape cloud architecture across regions
  • Identify and drive engineering improvements by researching pain points, reducing toil, and delivering highimpact solutions across our cloud and trading infrastructure.
  • Leverage automation and IaC to manage and optimize Linux and Kubernetes environments spanning baremetal, virtualized, and cloudnative systemsstreamlining workflows and reducing operational friction.
  • Strengthen platform reliability by improving global monitoring and alerting frameworks, incorporating adaptive and selfhealing mechanisms to elevate operational responsiveness.
  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex Linux/Kubernetes/Cloud issues, participating in oncall and ensuring thorough, wellreasoned incident resolution.
  • Provide regional technical leadership while collaborating with global stakeholders to define and implement platform standards, architectures, and largescale initiatives.
  • Use AIassisted engineering tools to accelerate analysis, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational automation.

 

What you need to succeed

  • 710+ years operating complex production environments spanning Linux, Kubernetes, and cloudnative infrastructure.
  • Deep Cloud experience, preferably within GKE or an equivalent stack (cluster ops, workload orchestration, networking, security, observability).
  • Strong Terraform expertise for provisioning and managing secure, scalable infrastructure.
  • Solid Linux fundamentals performance tuning, debugging, networking, virtualization, and baremetal experience.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
  • Experience with Kafka or similar streaming/datapipeline technologies.
  • Knowledge of Puppet/Ansible for configuration management and Foreman/Satellite for lifecycle and host management.
  • Practical understanding of monitoring/observability (Prometheus/Grafana or similar) and modern alerting strategies.
  • Strong Gitcentric workflows and comfort with modern CI/CD practices.
  • Ability to lead and influence technical direction at a regional level while collaborating effectively with global colleagues.
  • An entrepreneurial mindset proactively identifying gaps, reducing toil, and driving selfdirected engineering improvements.

 

At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the companys success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution. 

 

Per NYC salary transparency law, the total compensation for this role includes a base range of $190,000 to $235,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.

 

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

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Trading Systems Engineer

Compensation

$190,000 – $235,000 USD

City: Chicago

Country: United States

Flow Traders logo
Proprietary Trading

3 days ago

No clicks

at Flow Traders

ExperiencedNo visa sponsorship

This employer did not include a short summary.

Full Job Description

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Trading Systems Engineer

Chicago
Apply

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Engineer who can elevate our GCPfocused platform-especially GKE-while maintaining strong Linux and networking fundamentals. Our trading platforms span both ultralowlatency baremetal systems and modern cloudnative services. This role bridges onprem and cloud environments, strengthens global platform standards, and drives highimpact improvements that enhance reliability, reduce toil, and support timesensitive trading workloads.

What you will do

  • Serve as the USbased SME for our GCP platform with a strong focus on GKE workloadsworking within globally aligned standards while contributing your own expertise to improve Terraformdriven infrastructure and shape cloud architecture across regions
  • Identify and drive engineering improvements by researching pain points, reducing toil, and delivering highimpact solutions across our cloud and trading infrastructure.
  • Leverage automation and IaC to manage and optimize Linux and Kubernetes environments spanning baremetal, virtualized, and cloudnative systemsstreamlining workflows and reducing operational friction.
  • Strengthen platform reliability by improving global monitoring and alerting frameworks, incorporating adaptive and selfhealing mechanisms to elevate operational responsiveness.
  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex Linux/Kubernetes/Cloud issues, participating in oncall and ensuring thorough, wellreasoned incident resolution.
  • Provide regional technical leadership while collaborating with global stakeholders to define and implement platform standards, architectures, and largescale initiatives.
  • Use AIassisted engineering tools to accelerate analysis, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational automation.

 

What you need to succeed

  • 710+ years operating complex production environments spanning Linux, Kubernetes, and cloudnative infrastructure.
  • Deep Cloud experience, preferably within GKE or an equivalent stack (cluster ops, workload orchestration, networking, security, observability).
  • Strong Terraform expertise for provisioning and managing secure, scalable infrastructure.
  • Solid Linux fundamentals performance tuning, debugging, networking, virtualization, and baremetal experience.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation, tooling, and operational workflows.
  • Experience with Kafka or similar streaming/datapipeline technologies.
  • Knowledge of Puppet/Ansible for configuration management and Foreman/Satellite for lifecycle and host management.
  • Practical understanding of monitoring/observability (Prometheus/Grafana or similar) and modern alerting strategies.
  • Strong Gitcentric workflows and comfort with modern CI/CD practices.
  • Ability to lead and influence technical direction at a regional level while collaborating effectively with global colleagues.
  • An entrepreneurial mindset proactively identifying gaps, reducing toil, and driving selfdirected engineering improvements.

 

At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the companys success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution. 

 

Per NYC salary transparency law, the total compensation for this role includes a base range of $190,000 to $235,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.

 

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

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Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labors Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

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  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
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  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
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  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
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