Talent Pool: Trading Systems Engineer
Flow TradersAbout the Role
This role focuses on elevating Flow Traders' GCP-focused platform, especially GKE, while maintaining strong Linux and networking fundamentals. You will bridge on-premises and cloud environments, strengthen global platform standards, and drive high-impact improvements that enhance reliability and support time-sensitive trading workloads. As the US-based subject matter expert for the GCP platform, you will identify engineering improvements, leverage automation and infrastructure-as-code, strengthen platform reliability, serve as a senior escalation point for complex issues, and provide regional technical leadership.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years operating complex production environments spanning Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud‑native 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 bare‑metal experience
- Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation, tooling, and operational workflows
- Experience with Kafka or similar streaming/data‑pipeline 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 Git‑centric 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 self‑directed engineering improvements
What You'll Get
- $160k–$215k base salary
- All employees are eligible to share in the company's success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution