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Production Operations Engineer (Trading Systems / SRE / Application Support)

Optiver
🇨🇳Shanghai🇦🇺SydneyFull-timePosted July 21, 2026

About the Role

The Production Operations Engineer maintains and scales Optiver's low-latency trading systems, ensuring a safe, stable, and efficient production environment. The role involves deploying, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation. You will provide technical expertise to high-frequency trading floors, manage proprietary trading applications, review incidents to drive improvements, and collaborate with development teams to establish best practices for production system stability.

Requirements

  • Solid experience managing complex distributed systems in Linux environments (L2/L3 support), with a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, build, deployment, and version control systems
  • Fundamental efficiency with CI/CD tooling and scripting in Python or similar languages to automate tasks
  • Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) or other database systems
  • Demonstrated ability to drive system improvements and work across global teams to deliver changes
  • A collaborative team player with a positive attitude, capable of coordinating effectively across departments
  • A pragmatic and logical thinker who thrives under pressure in high-intensity environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incidents efficiently
  • Effective communicator, able to clearly explain technical concepts and ask insightful questions
  • Highly organized, able to manage multiple responsibilities while keeping stakeholders informed
  • Passionate about technology, curious about the interaction between hardware and software, and driven to learn and grow by embracing frequent change

What You'll Get

  • A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry; profits are combined across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment
  • The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment
  • Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
  • Daily breakfast, lunch and snacks
  • Gym membership, sports and leisure activities, plus weekly in-house chair massages
  • Regular social events, clubs and Friday afternoon drinks